Wars are of course as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind contentment grace the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Never be in a hurry do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever even if your whole world seems upset.

Parents are not interested in justice they're interested in peace and quiet.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

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

If civilization is to survive we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples of all kinds to live together in the same world at peace.

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

The soldier above all others prays for peace for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

You either get tired fighting for peace or you die.

When you can whip any man in the world you never know peace.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century tempered by war disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

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

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

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

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

If we desire to avoid insult we must be able to repel it 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.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

If we are to teach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war we shall have to begin with the children.