Quotes About Peace

Suicide How would I know I don't suffer any more, if I'm dead?

He thought America's character would be defined by how it treated its vanquished enemies, and he wanted to graduate from bitter wartime grievances to the forgiving posture of peace.

Clinton epitomized the flaws of the old confederation, and he denounced "the pernicious intrigues of a man high in office to preserve power and emolument to himself at the expense of the union, the peace, and the happiness of America.

the fiery and destructive passions of war reign in the human breast with much more powerful sway than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.

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

Hamilton had championed a humane, enlightened policy toward the Indians. When real-estate speculators had wanted to banish them from western New York, he warned Governor Clinton that the Indians' friendship "alone can keep our frontiers in peace. . . . The attempt at the total expulsion of so desultory a people is as chimerical as it would be pernicious.

They knew they would either have to quit the business or swallow their pride and make peace with the oil giant.

Rockefeller did not show any anxiety about the absence of security

He favored granting Congress supreme power in war, peace, trade, finance, and foreign affairs.

From his reading of history, Hamilton concluded a few essays later that war was an inescapable fact of life: "the fiery and destructive passions of war reign in the human breast with much more powerful sway than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace."54

The constant session of Congress cannot be necessary in times of peace," said Thomas Jefferson, who wanted to replace it with a committee.64 Slowly but inexorably, the future battle lines were being drawn between those who wanted an energetic central government and those who wanted rights to revert to the states.

Thanks to Washington and Hamilton, the American economy flourished; thanks to Adams, the Quasi-War with France had receded to a memory. Inheriting domestic prosperity and international peace, Jefferson benefited from exceptional good fortune as America settled down for the first time since the Revolution.

He never seemed to take great pleasure in his accomplishments, and for the rest of his life, he craved a restful but elusive peace.

She confided in John, felt a peaceful glow in his presence, and he responded with deep compassion.

If peace was really within reach wasn't it immoral to fail?

There in the course of one hour, a little elderly woman who embodied the spirit of nonviolence single-handedly prevented loss of life, and a preppie young man with fast fists flying also prevented violence. I would not presume to judge who was doing the will of God on that snowy February afternoon.

Hatred is so much easier than reconciliation; no sacrifices or compromises are required.

They say there's peace if you can relinquish desire. For me desire's absence has only ever left a dull persistent ache.

The best fights are the ones you don't have

si vis pacem para bellum.

the loud diesel roaring died into the mountain silence.

From the Latin motto si vis pacem para bellum. If you wish for peace, prepare for war.

A maintenance dose. It would keep her asleep all night. It would keep her warm, and gentle, and relaxed, and at peace, and cradled, and happy.

CD. The Summer of Love. The Mamas and the Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company.