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" Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. "

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" It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers. "

Ahmed Ben Bella

" I have always been afraid of banks. "

" We do not want riches, we want peace and love. "

" Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time. "

" Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. "

Jawaharlal Nehru

" If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual. "

" I bought my own home in 2004. It's a sanctuary for my family and a place of peace and calm. It's key for anyone committed to leadership and success to avoid the noise and focus on their best opportunities. "

Robin S. Sharma

" If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword. "

" I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. "

" There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone. "

Rakul Preet Singh

" When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace. "

" If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. "

" No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody. "

" Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge. "

" Avoid popularity if you would have peace. "

Abraham Lincoln

" The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. "

" I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others. "

Elle Macpherson

" Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it's like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too. "

" Anyone who spends time on the road knows there's something special about being in the middle of Utah or Nebraska - you sit with it, and there's a peace about it. You can go left or right, and it opens up all kinds of doors. You take your own path. "

" We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions. "

" There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. "

" All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary. "

" Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice. "

Arthur Henderson

" Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights. "

George B. McClellan

" Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned. "

Octavia E. Butler

" When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us. "

Don Miguel Ruiz

" If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. "

" Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread. "