Quotes About Peace

Winter farewell, winter farewell, and away you go and trouble us no more.

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

Dearest, these household cares remit; And while the sky is blue today, Here in this sunny shelter sit, To list the blackbird's lay.

In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.

I prefer the troubled ocean of war...to the tranquil, putrescent pool of ignominious peace.

We can never have enough of nature.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

There can be no very black misery to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Great trials come at lengthened intervals, and we rise to breast them; but it is the petty friction of our everyday life with one another, the jar of business or of work, the discord of the domestic circle, the collapse of our ambition, the crossing of our will or the taking down of our conceit, which makes inward peace impossible.

We aspire to the top to look for Rest; it lies at the bottom. Water rests only when it gets to the lowest place. So do men.

Surely joy is the condition of life. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU

What bothered her most was the ceaseless movement of her mind, so locked in activity that it allowed her no rest, not even in sleep.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.