peace Quotes

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.