Quotes About Peace

Covenants, without the sword, are but words

Peace and rest at length have come All the day's long toil is past, And each heart is whispering, 'Home, Home at last.

We thought her dying whilst she slept, And sleeping when she died.

There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be, In the cold grave-under the deep deep sea.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Let us cross the river to the other side and rest beneath the shade of the trees. [Stonwall Jackson just before passing into eternity in 1863.]

Let us cross over the river, and rest in the shade of the trees.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everyone is standing around reloading

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

I am convinced that those societies which live without government enjoy in their gen'l mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should therefore not permit yourself even to think while you walk. But divert your attention by the objects surrounding you.

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as it is to the sufferer.

The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves and suffice for our own happiness.

He [Rabbi Menasha Levaartov] was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.