No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
Calvin Coolidge

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Lyndon B. Johnson

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
Louis Farrakhan

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Francis of Assisi

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Francis of Assisi

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Victor Hugo

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa

An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Andrew Jackson

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
Samuel Smiles

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Neil Armstrong

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.
Saint Francis de Sales

Let us have peace.
Ulysses S. Grant

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant