Peace
“The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquility, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.”
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
“He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.”
“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”
“Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. ”
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.”
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
“A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”
“Peace begins with a smile.”
“All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field."
“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. ”
“There never was a good war, or a bad peace.”
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.”
“How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak.”
“If I was the head of a country that lost a war, and I had to sign a peace treaty, just as I was signing I'd glance over the treaty and then suddenly act surprised. 'Wait a minute! I thought WE won!”
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!”
“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.”
“The absence of war is not peace.”
“I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.”
“If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.”
“Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.”
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