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

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

war is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe.

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

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

We hear very often declarations on the demoralizing tendency of war, but as much as I hate war, I cannot be of the opinion that frequent wars are so corrupting to human nature as long peaces.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Would I rather be having this thought now, or would I rather have my peace?

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

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

They prefer death to peace, others prefer death to war.
Any opinion can be preferred to life, which it seems so natural to love dearly.

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.