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As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
Written by Paul Robeson
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.
Written by John F. Kennedy
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Written by Joseph Roux
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Written by John F. Kennedy
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
Written by James Allen
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Written by Patrick Henry
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
Written by John Holmes
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Written by Baruch Spinoza
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Written by Isaac Asimov
If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
Written by Edmund Wilson
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
Written by George Herbert
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Written by Mother Teresa
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Written by Napoleon Bonaparte
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace begins with a smile.
Written by Mother Teresa
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Written by Benjamin Franklin
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Written by Jeane Kirkpatrick
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Written by Thomas Mann
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Written by Ulysses S. Grant
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
Written by Georges Clemenceau
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.
Written by Victor Hugo
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Written by Marianne Williamson
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Written by Wendell Berry
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
Written by John Lennon
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Written by Saint Augustine
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
Written by James K. Polk
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
Written by Muhammad Ali
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
Written by Anatole Broyard

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