Quotes About Peace

When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.

They stood inside their own quiet like a pocket.

I hope you will not be tempted into litigation. Life is too short for that."25

seemed quite content to sit in silence sometimes and not try to entertain each other.

For you know me well enough, my good Sir, to be persuaded that I am not guilty of affectation when I tell you it is my great and sole desire to live and die, in peace and retirement, on my own farm.

Those are the only things which really seem to do him any good.

Hamilton said, "A nation without a national government is, in my view, an awful spectacle. The establishment of a constitution in [a] time of profound peace by the voluntary consent of a whole people is a prodigy, to the completion of which I look forward with trembling anxiety.

Conforming to tradition, the convention sent a delegation to Grant with official notice of his nomination. In return, he scratched out a statement that mostly dealt in standard rhetoric, concluding with four words that formed the slogan of his campaign and remained irreversibly associated with him: "Let us have peace.

For some, the credo sounded blandly vacuous and Henry Adams wisecracked that "Let Us Have Peace" meant only "Leave Me Alone.

It was his own Walden, a place where "fine views invest the soul and where we can live simply and quietly.

If anything, he craved seclusion.

In the first essay, Hamilton dealt with the objection that only Congress could issue a neutrality proclamation, since it alone had the power to declare war. Hamilton pointed out that if "the legislature have a right to make war, on the one hand, it is, on the other, the duty of the executive to preserve peace till war is declared."50 Once again, Hamilton broadened the authority of the executive branch in diplomacy, especially during emergencies.

He added the important caveat that the war had been "a fearful lesson, and should teach us the necessity of avoiding wars in the future.

petrichord: the sound of water sliding over smooth stone.

I'm glad I can still sometimes drug my senses with a book.

An over-sensitive person in the country is always a strain.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

People don't start wars, governments do.

I couldn t help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We d find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together