Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Debates, I hate.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

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

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

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

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

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

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

It’s a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That’s what you should learn self-defense for.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

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.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.