PEACE

Related Subjects: Calm, Contentment, Dove, Quiet, Serenity

1. Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.—AESOP, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
   

2. Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm;
   Endless extinction of unhappy hates.—MATTHEW ARNOLD, Merope
   

3. Sosie: At least what passes for peace—the breathing-spell between wars.—S. N. BEHRMAN, Amphitryon
   

4. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.—Bible, Isaiah 2:4
   

5. There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.—Bible, Isaiah 48:22
   

6. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.—Bible, Isaiah 52:7
   

7. They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.—Bible, Jeremiah 6:14
   

8. Behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.—Bible, Jeremiah 14:13,14
   

9. Can two walk together, except they be agreed?—Bible, Amos 3:3
   

10. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward
    men.—Bible, Luke 2:14

11. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.—Bible, Romans 12:18
    

12. Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace.—Bible, Romans 14:19
    

13. The peace of God, which passeth all understanding.—Bible, Philippians 4:7
    

14. We confine our love of peace to paper; our war spirit finds its expression in deeds. We profess tolerance, and practice intolerance. We profess friendship, and practice vengeance . . . I would rather have just now one ounce of practice than tons of profession in the cause of peace.—WILLIAM E. BORAH, How to End War
    

15. What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.—JOSEPH CONRAD, Under Western Eyes
    

16. It is now in the power of the present confederacy for ever to prevent any more war in Europe. It is in their power to make themselves arbiters of all the differences and disputes that ever can happen in Europe, whether between kingdom and kingdom, or between sovereign and subjects. A congress of this alliance may be made a Court of Appeals for all the injured and oppressed, whether they are princes or people that are or ever shall be in Europe to the end of the world. Here the petty states and princes shall be protected against the terror of their powerful neighbors, the great shall no more oppress the small, or the mighty devour the weak; this very confederacy have at this time, and, if they please, may preserve to themselves, the power of banishing war out of Europe.—DEFOE, Plan for a League of Nations
    

17. "Peace upon earth!" was said. We sing it,
    And pay a million priests to bring it.
    After two thousand years of mass,
    We've got as far as poison-gas.—THOMAS HARDY
    

18. "To disarm" appears to be an irregular verb with no first person singular and only a future tense.—EDUARD HERRIOT, At the Disarmament Conference in
    Geneva
    

19. 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; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.—LINCOLN
    

20. Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du
    Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.—LOWELL, The Biglow Papers
    

21. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.—KARL MARX, Manifesto of the Communist Party
    

22. An olive-leaf he brings, pacific sign.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

23. Peace bath her victories
    No less renown'd than war.—MILTON, To the Lord General Cromwell
    

24. Peace can only come when the causes of war are removed. So long as there is the domination of one country over another, or the exploitation of one class by another, there will always be attempts to subvert the existing order, and no stable equilibrium can endure. Out of imperialism and capitalism peace can never come.—JAWAH.ARLAL NEHRU, India and the World
    

25. Blessed is the peace-maker, not the conqueror.—Proverb
    

26. It is madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf.—Proverb
    

27. Nobody can live longer in peace than his neighbour pleases.—Proverb
    

28. He that makes a good war makes a good peace.—Proverb
    

29. Better an egg in peace than an ox in war.—Proverb
    

30. A deceitful peace is more hurtful than open war.—Proverb
    

31. We will have to want Peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.—ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
    

32. We wish peace; but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right, and not because we are afraid.—THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Inaugural Address
    

33. And after the strife of war begins the strife of peace.—CARL SANDBURG, The People, Yes
    

34. That it shall hold companionship in peace
    With honour, as in war.—SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus
    

35. Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

36. They make desolation, which they call peace.—TACITUS, Agricola
    

37. Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. Passivity and quietism are invitations to war.—DOROTHY THOMPSON, On the Record
    

38. They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war—as though the absence of war was the same as peace.—DOROTHY THOMPSON, On the Record
    

39. Let us work without disputing; it is the only way to render life tolerable.—VOLTAIRE, Candide
    

40. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.—WASHINGTON
    

41. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.—WOODROW WILSON
    

42. The world can be at peace only if its life is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquillity of spirit and the sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.—WOODROW WILSON
    

43. No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.—WOODROW WILSON
    

44. Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. The right state of mind, the right feeling between nations, is as necessary for a lasting peace as is the just settlement of vexed questions of territory or of racial and national allegiance.—WOODROW WILSON
    

45. The whole family of nations will have to guarantee to each nation that no nation shall violate its political independence or its territorial integrity. That is the basis, the only conceivable basis for the future peace of the world.—WOODROW WILSON