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.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

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

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

War settles nothing.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

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.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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.

All movements go too far.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Our nation must come together to unite.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

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

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Peace is its own reward.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.