Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one’s country?
Peace Quotes
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence.
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
On all the peaks lies peace.
No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace. For in peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not in exemption from, suffering.
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.
