“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”
“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”
“Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.”
“The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.”
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.”
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.”
“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.”
“You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
“What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.”
“He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.”
“Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.”
“If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
“World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it”
“To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.”
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
“Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.”
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
“Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.”
“Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.”
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
“This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.”
“The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.”
“The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.”
“War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.”
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
“The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.”
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
“The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.”
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”