An unjust peace is better than a just war.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

peace WITH trade, is preferable to war WITHOUT it.

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war

There are situations that a nation may be in, in which peace or war, abstracted from every other consideration, may be politically right or wrong. When nothing can be lost by a war, but what must be lost without it, war is then the policy of that country; and such was the situation of America at the commencement of hostilities: but when no security can be gained by a war, but what may be accomplished by a peace, the case becomes reversed.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.