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.
George Washington

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
Kurt Cobain

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
William Shakespeare

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela

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

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle

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

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
Mike Ditka

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luther