Famous Quotes About peace

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

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!

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.