7,293 Quotes About Peace

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Peace is our passion.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries than by war, which is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.