Peace Quotes - Page 78

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.

You don't get what you want. You get what you are.

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

If you expect your life to be full of ups and downs, then your mind will be much more peaceful.

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt...If the game runs sometime against us at home, we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder

War would end if the dead could return.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.

Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less.

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.

How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.