People live in constant fear lest the storm that every moment threatens should break upon them with dreadful violence. And with good reason, for the arms of war are ready at hand… Disagreements (between nations) must be settled, not by force… but rather in the only manner which is worthy of the dignity of man, […]
Peace Quotes
Your people – the (Quaker) Friends – have had and are having a very great trial. On principle, and faith, opposed to both war and oppression, they can only practically oppose oppression by war. In this hard dilemma some have chosen one horn and some the other. For those appealing to me on conscientious grounds, […]
Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars.
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn’t have as many monuments to unveil.
As peace is the end of war, it is the end, likewise, of preparations for war; and he may be justly hunted down, as the enemy of mankind, that can choose to snatch, by violence and bloodshed, what gentler means can equally obtain.
A universal and perpetual peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts. It is still however true, that war contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped […]
I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. Perhaps for a few people at some time in history there was such an age. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.
Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.
