Peace Offer

Famous quotes containing the words peace and/or offer:

“A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers—a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

“Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by much art and study.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)