Peace Quotes

A deceitful peace is more hurtful than open war.

One does not like hot, the other does not like cold; make it tepid to make an agreement.

In the night we stumble over things and become acutely conscious of their separateness, but the day reveals the unity which embraces them. And the man whose inner vision is bathed in consciousness at once realizes the spiritual unity which reigns over all racial differences, and his mind no longer stumbles over individual facts, accepting […]

A peace establishment ought always to have two objects in view; the one, present security of posts and of stores, and the public tranquillity; the other, to be prepared, if the latter is impracticable, to resist with efficacy the sudden attempts of a foreign or domestic enemy.

These endured all and gave all that justice among nations might prevail and that mankind might enjoy freedom and inherit peace.

Peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one’s own soul.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Time’s but a shadow that will cease. Eternity shall bring us perfect peace.

I would rather have peace in the world than be president.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.