Quotes About Peace

It is one thing to defend one's fatherland, another to attack people who themselves have a fatherland to defend. The spirit of conquest seeks to confuse these two ideas. Some governments, when they send their armies from one pole to the other, still talk about the defence of their hearths; one would think they call all the places to which they have set fire their hearths.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence

A canter is the cure for all evil.

Never has there been a good war or a bad peace

Wars bring scars.

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Here Skugg lies snugAs a bug in a rug.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

there will be sleeping enough in the grave....

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievious ones.

Keep Conscience clear, then never fear.

Cowards can handle Arms, can strike where they are sure to meet with no Return, can wound, mangle and murder; but it belongs to brave Men to spare, and to protect.

What vast additions to the Conveniences and Comforts of Living might Mankind have acquired, if the Money spent in Wars had been employ'd in Works of public utility!

Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!