If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarters, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

I wish no explanation made to our enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can have if we explain; and they cannot have if we don’t.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.