Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.

Edgar Lee Masters

Work for your own soul's sake.

Benjamin Franklin

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Benjamin Franklin

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

Barbara Tuchman

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

Barbara Tuchman

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Black Elk

At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

Bennett Cerf

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

Charlie Sheen

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Charles Lindbergh

In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

Charles Lindbergh

Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.

William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

William Shakespeare

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

William Shakespeare

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

Noah Hawley

I think people used to read 'War and Peace,' and now they don't; now they sit around with their tablets and watch 'Downton Abbey' and 'Breaking Bad' or whatever, and they want the things that they watch to be better so that they can feel better about themselves for watching it.

Ariel Sharon

a better peace, a realistic peace, a different way.

Paul Mooney

A lot of soldiers flashed each other peace signs ... but it wasn't the most popular outlook.

They outnumbered us. We had a peaceful vigil off campus. The second day, there were even more police.

Georg Buchner

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

It's one of the most serene, peaceful places you can imagine,

This (peace bid) will be a turning point and will give us a signal whether the problem is going to get better or worse.

Ilham Aliyev

There will be clashes or peaceful demonstrations, ... under very tense conditions.

It is really very shocking. This is a peaceful place.

It is really peaceful and serene in the summertime.

Michael Chapman

It's a peaceful resolution of every pending issue.

It's a journey. Peace is something you do on a moment-by-moment basis.

Scott Johnson

They're being peaceful but they are not doing what they are supposed to be doing and that is being in class.