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

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than War, War is better than tribute.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.

Peace is not something between two wars, or the peace of the politician. Peace is something entirely different.

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.

Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.