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“For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of
more service than civil war.
[Lat., Mihi enim omnis pax cum civibus bello civili utilior
videbatur.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Philippicoe (2, 15, 37)
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“Nor is heaven always at peace.
[Lat., Nec sidera pacem
Semper habent.]”
Claudian (Claudianus) Quotes Source: De Bello Getico (LXII)
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“A severe war lurks under the show of peace.
[Lat., Mars gravior sub pace latet.]”
Claudian (Claudianus) Quotes Source: De Sexto Consulatu Honorii Augustsi Panegyris (307)
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“The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own
sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if
we can, forcibly if we must."”
Henry Clay Quotes Source: Speech--On the New Army Bill
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“Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.”
Wilkie (William) Collins Quotes Source: Eclogue II--Hassan (l. 68)
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“O for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade;
Where rumor of oppression and deceit,
Of unsuccessful or successful war,
Might never reach me more.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 1)
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“Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 1)
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“Such subtle covenants shall be made,
Till peace itself is war in masquerade.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitopel (pt. I, l. 752; pt. II, l. 268)
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“At home the hateful names of parties cease,
And factious souls are wearied into peace.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Astroea Redux (l. 312)
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“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
The Bible Quotes |
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“Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”
Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
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“Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.”
Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard Quotes |
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“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
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“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes |
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“Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.”
Martin Luther Quotes |
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“Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war.”
John Milton Quotes |
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“Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.”
John Milton Quotes |
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“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.”
Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes |
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“Peace has no borders.”
Yitzhak rabin Quotes |
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“Peace, like charity, begins at home.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes |
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“Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes |
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“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep! He hath awaken from the dream of life!”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes |
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“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
Baruch Spinoza Quotes |
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