Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

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

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Peace is its own reward.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.