“We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.”

“It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.”

“I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.”

“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”

“I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.”

“I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.”

“The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.”

“You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.”

“I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.”

“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”

“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”

“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”

“Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.”

“The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.”

“There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.”

“Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.”

“I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.”

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”

“The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.”

“I believe it is peace in our time.”