Peace

"If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world."

- Chinese Proverb

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!"

- Patrick Henry

"If I was the head of a country that lost a war, and I had to sign a peace treaty, just as I was signing I'd glance over the treaty and then suddenly act surprised. 'Wait a minute! I thought WE won!'"

- Jack Handey

"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

 - Benjamin Franklin

"All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field."

- Albert Einstein

"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."

- Andre Gide

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

- Gandhi

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson