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- I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech to Congress, Apr. 2, 1917
- Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997), -- Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
- War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
- The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), "Strength to Love"
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