Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

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

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

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

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

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

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.