Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.
God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
Longer Version:
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Longer Version:
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
