I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.

What really alarms me about President Bush's "War on Terrorism" is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is "Terrorism" going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail.

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.