Peace Quotes

"I prefer a country with a steady state of existence."

"Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?"

"I have the consolation to reflect that my integrity is clear and my heart is at ease."

"I believe the balance of power is the scale of peace; the same principle will apply to every republic."

"The price of power is the loss of peace."

"Those who seek peace must sometimes prepare for war, for preparedness often prevents both."

"A conscience at peace is worth more than a vault filled with gold."

"Union of religious sentiments with respect to civil rights will produce a wholesome influence."

"The Union of the States is the basis of their collective and individual happiness."

"Every new and successful example of a perfect toleration of religious opinions is of value."

"Peace is more important than truth, but if we sacrifice truth for peace, we have neither."

"Clemency and reform are stronger weapons than severity and punishment."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of justice."

"Peace is the only victory worth celebrating."

"In seeking advantage, we often sacrifice the greatest treasure—peace."

"Arms are excellent things to those who know how to use them; but the musket ought not to be the measure of the mind."

"The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war."

"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."

"A peaceful life is worth more than a lifetime of conflict and strife."

"Peace is not merely the absence of war, but the presence of justice."

"If mankind truly desires peace, it must first desire justice."

"Peace without justice is merely the silence of the oppressed."

"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

"A harmonious government is better than a perfect one if the perfect one be unstable."

"Nations which do not maintain the bonds of friendship with each other will inevitable find themselves in conflict."

"The real distinction is between those friends of liberty who are also friends of order."

"If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen."

"I prefer peace; but if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."

"All natural institutions of things conduce to moral order and order to peace."