That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.
Peace Quotes
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in… to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
Arise then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of tears! Say firmly, “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking of carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from […]
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, […]
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.
