The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.