“Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.”— Wallace Stegner, amazon.com
“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“Contrary to popular belief, peace and quiet is all about the noise in your head.”— Daniel A. Gross, nautil.us
“Kirste found that two hours of silence per day prompted cell development in the hippocampus, the brain region related to the formation of memory, involving the senses.”— Daniel A. Gross, nautil.us
“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.”— Jen Sincero, amazon.com
“Hey, I love pussy, but I like peace more. Peace is better than pussy. Peace makes my dick hard. I need motherfucking peace, motherfucker. You wanna be my girl? Be peaceful. Just some peace, motherfucker.”— Chris Rock, scrapsfromtheloft.com
“There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.”— Phil Knight, inc.com
“There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion and I’ll show you a hundred retrogressions.”— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org
“What you know in your soul will bring you peace. Be still and listen. Be still and know.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.”— James K. Polk, presidential-power.org
“Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family."”— James K. Polk, thoughtco.com
“Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.”— James K. Polk, yale.edu
“The truth is, when it’s right, you will know. You will have this sense of everything around you—peace, understanding, joy, rest. You won’t be afraid.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Joseph Stalin, marx2mao.com
“Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“I was in despair. Deep despair, I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya’s peasant before the firing squad. I formalized the drawing into a line and put a circle round it. It was ridiculous at first and s…”— Gerald Holtom, amazon.com