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But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

—Bible (Old Testament)

History teaches us that enmities between nations†do not last forever.Wemustconduct ouraffairsinsuchaway that it becomes in the communists' interests to agree on a genuine peace†to let each nation choose its own future, so long as that choice does not interfere with the choices of others. If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

—Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that gettethunderstanding.For themerchandise of it isbetter than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the thingsthoucanst desirearenottobe compared untoher. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

—Bible (Old Testament)

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

—Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

When you're at war you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

—Wilder,Thornton Niven

The author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom.

—Book of Common Prayer

Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

The Bomb brought peace, but man alone can keep that peace.

—Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer

I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree.I went by, and lo, he was gone: I sought him, but his place could no where be found. Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right: for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

—Book of Common Prayer

   Give it because it isright.Give it because it is just.Give it because it isgood for Ireland and good for the United Kingdom.Give it because it brings peace and good will, but do not give it because you are bullied byassassins.

—Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl

And who will bring white peace That he may sleep upon his hill again?

—Lindsay, (Nicholas) Vachel

And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun, And she forgot the blue above the trees, And she forgot the dells where waters run, And she forgot the chillyautumn breeze; She had no knowledge when the day was done, And the new morn she saw not: but in peace Hung over her sweet Basil evermore, And moistened it with tears unto the core.

—Keats,John

Come sleep,O sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low.

—Shute, Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we likesheep havegoneastray; wehaveturned everyoneto his own way; and the L hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Compassed round by pleasure, sighed For independent happiness; craving peace, The central feeling of all happiness, Not as a refuge from distress or pain, A breathing-time, vacation, or a truce, But for its absolute self.

—Wordsworth,William

Cricket can be a bridge and a glue† Cricket for peace is my mission.

—Zia Ul-Haq, Mohammed

And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.

—Hughes,Ted (Edward James)

The deep, deep peace ofthe double-bed after thehurly- burly of the chaise-longue.

—Campbell, Mrs Patrick ne¤  e Beatrice Rose StellaTanner

Since wars begin in theminds of men, it isintheminds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.

—Unesco Constitution

Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

—Napoleon I

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshedöthey produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

—Welles, (George) Orson

At its birth, the republic gave voice to three wordsöLiberty,Equality,Fraternity! If Europeiswiseand just, each of those words signifies Peace.

—Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de

What can one do with the past? Forgive it. Let it enter into you in peace.

—Murray, Les(lie Allan)

Everlasting peace is a dream, and not even a pleasant one; and war is a necessary part of God's arrangement with the world† Without war the world would deteriorate into materialism.

—Moltke, Helmuth von, Count

Father of Peace, and God of love! We ownThy power to save, That power by which our Shepherd rose Victorious o'er the grave.

—Doddridge, Philip

For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert people. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice.

—Thesiger, Sir Wilfred Patrick

Therefore if any man can shew any just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

—Book of Common Prayer

All we are saying isgive peace a chance.

—Lennon,JohnWinston

Give peace in our time,O Lord.

—Book of Common Prayer

The L bless thee, and keep thee: The L makehisfaceshineuponthee, and be gracious unto thee: The L lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Old Hodge stays not his hand, but whips to kennel The renegade.God's peace betide the souls Of the pure in heart. But in the box that fennel Grows around, are two red eyes that stare like coals.

—Ransom,John Crowe

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. Theyare generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that theyalready have.

—More, SirThomas

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

—Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer

He that makes a good war makes a good peace.

—Herbert, George

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

—Beveridge,William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron

Sir Henry Wotton†was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of angling; of which he would say,'it was anemployment forhisidletime†a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness; and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.'

—Walton, Izaak

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined bya hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall payany price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

—Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

An English homeögrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepöall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

—Tennyson

And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

—Bible (NewTestament)

May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.

—Newman,John Henry

   The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind, his heart blackening: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey peace in old poems.

—Jeffers, (John) Robinson

I came to the conclusion that some more ascetic reason than mere enjoyment should be found if one wishes to travel in peace: to do things for fun smacks of levity, immoralityalmost, in our utilitarian world. And though personally I think the world is wrong, and I know in my heart of hearts that it is a most excellent reason to do things merely because one likes the doing of them, I would advise all those who wish to see unwrinkled brows in passport offices to start out ready labelled as entomologists, anthropologists, or whatever other - ology they think suitable and propitious.

—Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine

Good-night. Ensured release Imperishable peace, Have these for yours, While earth's foundations stand And skyand sea and land And heaven endures.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

The inglorious arts of peace.

—Marvell, Andrew

   In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

—Brooke, Rupert Chawner

E'n la sua voluntade e'   nostra pace. In His will is our peace.

—Dante Alighieri originally Durante

Le droit des gens est naturellement fonde¤   sur ce principe: que les diverses nations doivent se faire, dans la paix, le plus de bien, et, dans la guerre, le moins de mal qu'il est possible, sans nuire a'   leurs ve¤  ritables inte¤  re"  ts. Law is naturally founded on this principle: that different nations should do, in peace and as far as best as they can in war, the least harm as possible, without harming their true interests.

—Bre'  de et de

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the orderof nature and causes parentsto inter theirchildren.

—Herodotus   c.485

In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

—Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer

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; Where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

—Franklin, Benjamin

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

—Shaw, George Bernard

   BeforeThee in humility, withThee in faith, inThee in peace.

—Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl

See in what peace a Christian can die.

—Addison,Joseph

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   King of glory, King of peace I will loveThee And that love may never cease, I will moveThee.

—Herbert, George

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Qui desiderat pacem, praeparat bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

—Vegetius full name FlaviusVegetius Renatus

   Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine, secundum verbum tuum in pace. Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace: according to thy word. See Bible (NewTestament) 115:27.

—Bible (Vulgate)

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

—Bible (NewTestament)

: If we beat the King ninety-nine times, yet he is King still so will his posterity be after him; but if the King beat us once we shall be hanged, and our posterity made slaves. : My Lord, if this be so, why did we take up arms at first? This is against fighting hereafter. If so, let us make peace, be it never so base.

—Cromwell, Oliver

We the Peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, whichtwice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to 873 mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignityand worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, and for these ends, to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one anotherasgood neighbours, and tounite our strengthto maintain international peace and security, and to ensure by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.

—United Nations Charter

Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.

—Collins,William

Pax Romana.Where they made a desolation they called Burke it a peace.What absolutenonsense! It was a nasty, vulgar sort of civilization, only dignified by being hidden under a lot of declensions.

—Wilson

Ihadthepaperbut Ididnot read it becauseIdidnot want to read about the war. I was going to forget the war. I had made a separate peace.

—Hemingway, Ernest Millar

   Make it a green peace.

—Darnell, Bill

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

—Washington, BookerTaliaferro

The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain† But there can be no doubt as to the elements in the record that have evoked the best in human nature. The Mother, the Child and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self- forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

—Whitehead, Alfred North

I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known.

—Hopkins, SirAnthony

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace on earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

—GeorgeV

There never was a good war or a bad peace. 334

—Franklin, Benjamin

Diplomats and protocols are very good things, but there are no better peace-keepersthanwell-appointed three- deckers.

—Palmerston, HenryJohnTemple, 3rd Viscount

There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.

—Jonson, Ben

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

   There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Anyattempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behaviour.

—Lebowitz, Fran(ces Ann)

Ce n'est pas un traite¤   de paix, c'est un armistice de vingt ans. This is not a peace treaty, it is an armistice for twenty years.

—Foch, Ferdinand

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

Alas! so all things now do hold their peace, Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing† Calm is the sea, the waves work less and less; So am not I whom love, alas, doth wring, Bringing before my face the great increase Of my desires, whereat I weep and sing, In joy and woe, as in a doubtful ease. For my sweet thoughts sometime do pleasure bring, But by and by the cause of my disease Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting, When that I think what grief it is again To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.

—Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of

We have won the war. Now we have to win the peaceöand that may be more difficult.

—Clemenceau, Georges

The castor oil of the Palestinian peace movement.

—Anonymous

Keep ye the lawöbe swift in all obedienceö Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford. Make ye sure to each his own That he reap where he hath sown; By thepeaceamongourpeopleslet men know weserve the Lord!

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

When will the world know that peace and propagation are the two most delightful things in it?

—Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all.

—Milton,John

Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

—Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett

And intowhatsoeverhouseye enter, first say,Peacebeto this house. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Peace be to this house.

—Book of Common Prayer

We have seen Good men made evil wrangling with the evil, Straight mindsgrown crooked fighting crooked minds. Our peace betrayed us; we betrayed our peace. Look at it well.This was the good town once.

—Muir, Edwin

   PaxVobis. Peace be unto you.

—Bible (Vulgate)

Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the last 30 years.

—Adams, Gerry (Gerard)

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace. See Cecil 202:26, Chamberlain 204:63, Disraeli 277:85.

—Russell,John Russell, 1st Earl

Peace; come away: the song of woe Is after all an earthly song: Peace; come away: we do him wrong To sing so wildly: let us go.

—Tennyson

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

—Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)

Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest! Fare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest! Thine be ilka joyand treasure, Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure!

—Burns, Robert

My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.Go home and have a nice, quiet sleep. See also Disraeli 277:85.

—Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville

Thus Belial with words clothed in reason's garb Counselled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, Not peace.

—Milton,John

When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.

—Roosevelt, Franklin D(elano)

Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.

—Milton,John

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Lord Salisburyand myself have brought you peaceöbut a peace, I hope, with honour. See also Chamberlain 204:63.

—Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you, Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good: I am a God and cannot find it there.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land.

—Sadat, Anwar el-

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

—Hardy,Thomas

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

—Porteus, Beilby

Pees maketh plente; Plente maketh pride; Pride make plee; Plee maketh povert; Povert maketh pees. Peace makes plenty; Plenty makes pride; Pride makes lawsuits; Lawsuits make poverty; Poverty makes peace.

—Anonymous

   I do not want peace nor beauty nor even freedom from 494 pain. I want to fight and to feel new gods in the flesh.

—Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

The social progress, order, security and peace of each countryare necessarily connected with the social progress, order, securityand peace of all other countries.

—PopeJohn XXIII originally Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli

Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

—Bible (NewTestament)

The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keepyourheartsandmindsintheknowledgeand love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord: And the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be amongst you and remain with you always. Amen.

—Book of Common Prayer

In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.

—Smith, Adam

Hark! The herald angels sing! Beecham's Pills are just the thing, Two for a woman, one for a child, Peace on earth and mercy mild!

—Beecham, SirThomas

Hark! how all the welkin rings, Glory to the King of kings. Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled.

—Wesley, Charles

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted on the tested foundations of political liberty.

—Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow

Saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

—Bible (Old Testament)

For Mercy has a human heart Pity a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

—Blake,William

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

—Milton,John

England has greater countiesö Their peace to hers is small; Low hills, rich fields, calm rivers, In Essex seek them all.

—Cripps, Arthur S(hearly)

Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the L; and I will heal him.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Let us reunite ourselves with our better mind and with the world through science; and let it be one of our angelic revenges on the Philistines, who among their other sins are theguiltyauthors of Fenianism, tofound at Oxford a chair of Celtic, and to send, through the gentle ministration of science, a message of peace to Ireland.

—Arnold, Matthew

Guerre aux cha"  teaux, paix aux chaumie'  res. War to the castles, peace to the cottages.

—Chamfort, Se¤  bastien-Roch Nicolas

Long life to thy fame and peace to thy soul, Rob Burns! When I want to express a sentiment which I feel strongly, I find the phrase in Shakespeareöor thee. The blockheads talk of my being like Shakespeareönot fit to tie his brogues.

—Scott, Sir Walter

And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

—Bible (NewTestament)

O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed: Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give.

—Book of Common Prayer

Peace without honour is not onlya disgrace, but, except as a temporary respite, it is a chimera.

—of Salisbury

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to deaththose citizens or groups who question that status.

—Mamet, David Alan

The murmuring poor, who will not fast in peace.

—Crabbe, George

For some time I watch the coming of the night† Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children's children, the power, peace and healing of the night will be obliterated.

—Matthiessen, Peter

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.

—Bible (Old Testament)

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son isgiven: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,Counseller,The mighty God, The everlasting Father,The Prince of Peace.Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, uponthethrone of David, and uponhis kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the L of hosts will perform this.

—Bible (Old Testament)

England is one of the greatest powers of the world. No event or series of events bearing on the balance of power, or on probabilities of peace or war, can be matters of indifferencetoher, and herrighttohaveand to express opinions onmattersthusbearingonher interests is unquestionable.

—Palmerston, HenryJohnTemple, 3rd Viscount

In this war, we demand nothing that is peculiar to ourselves; only thatthe world be made fit and safeto live in.The programme oftheworld'speace, therefore, is our programme.

—Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow

   Science has promised us truthöan understanding of such relationships as our minds can grasp; it has never promised us either peace or happiness.

—Le Bon, Gustave

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion,Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the L shall bring again Zion.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doingourbesttore-establishpeaceand civil order inthe Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continuetosuffer through no fault oftheirown.If wesucceed,ourmilitarysuccesswill have achieved its true objective.

—Elizabeth II

I have but one request to make at my departure from this world, it isöthe charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives, dare now vindicate them, let no prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justicetomycharacter.Whenmycountry takesher place among thenations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

—Emmet, Robert

Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry.

—Jonson, Ben

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

—Bible (NewTestament)

I, Dekanahwideh, and the Confederated Chiefs, now uproot the tallest pine tree, and into the cavity thereby made we cast all weapons of war† Thus shall the Great Peace be established.

—Dekanahwideh   fl.c.1450

Stalin†that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age† The occasion is not merely the passing away of a great figure but perhaps the ending of an historic era.

—Nehru,Jawaharlal

You haveto take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war† The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessaryart. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

—Dulles,John Foster

   Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar.

—Arnold, Matthew

But thesouls of therighteous are inthehand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery, And their going from us to be utter destruction: but theyare in peace. For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality. And having beena little chastised,theyshall be greatly rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

   Hobbits are an unobtrusive but veryancient people, more numerous formerly than theyare today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well- ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt† Even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of 'the Big Folk', as they call us, and now they avoid us with dismay and are becoming hard to find.

—Tolkien,J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel)

Let the thing fall down in peace.

—Maybeck, Bernard Ralph

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and darköa shining space With the grave's narrowness, though not its peace.

—Graves, Robert von Ranke

So send them forth, though sorrowing, yet in peace.

—Milton,John

Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; 844 Ring in the Christ that is to be.

—Tennyson

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Atimeto be born, and atimeto die; atimetoplant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; Atimetoweep, and atimeto laugh; atimetomourn, and a time to dance: A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

—Bible (Old Testament)

An election is coming.Universal peace is declared, and thefoxeshavea sincere interest inprolonging thelives of the poultry.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

But we grow old, Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Through all the circle of the golden year.

—Tennyson

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

—Tacitus

Cedant arma togae, concedant laurea laudi. Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

—Cicero full name MarcusTullius Cicero

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon, July1969.We came in peace for all mankind.

—Anonymous

Towered cities pleased us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.

—Milton,John

The grim fact, however, is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies.

—Pearson, Lester Bowles

Is it peace? and Jehu said,What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.

—Bible (Old Testament)

When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.

—Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)

Every night, whisper 'Peace' in your husband's ear.

—Griswold, Alfred Whitney

Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.

—Tacitus

   When we started the UN we were not trying to make a monument.We were building a workshopöa workshop for world peace. And we tried to make it the best damn workshop we could.

—Harrison,Wallace K(irkman)