My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its conseq

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

We still seek no wider war.

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.