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

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
John Greenleaf Whittier

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

Peace is its own reward.
Mohandas Gandhi

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw

People always make war when they say they love peace.
David Herbert Lawrence

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

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

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
Geraldine Ferraro