Famous quotes containing the words lasting peace, lasting and/or peace:
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“... peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)