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"There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before."
"The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet."
"In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace."
"The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end."
"I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free."
"Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation."
"I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom."
"Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace."
"My hours are peaceful centuries."
"Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
"Let there be worse cotton and better men."
"Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less."
"Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!"
"An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others."
"No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war."
"No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war."
"Councils of War never fight."
"With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!"
"The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return."
"Gandhiji would always offer full details of his plans and movements to the police, thereby saving them a great deal of trouble. One police inspector who availed himself of Gandhi's courtesy in this matter is said to have been severely reprimanded by his chief. 'Don't you know,' he told the inspector, 'that everyone who comes into close contact with that man goes over to his side?'"
