Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

Nature is a powerful healer, offering us peace and restoration.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

George Washington

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

George Washington

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Carl von Clausewitz

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 always beautiful.

Walt Whitman

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

Theodore Roosevelt

I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate.

Albert Einstein

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

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.

Edward Grey

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Karl Marx

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

Ludwig Quidde

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

In nature, we find peace for our restless souls and inspiration for our creative spirits.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Benjamin Franklin

The art of living lies in mastering the balance between chasing dreams and finding contentment in the moment—a harmony that brings lasting peace.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

George Washington

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Kurt Cobain

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Tacitus