It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; For then both parties nobly are subdued, And neither party loser.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.

What we dignify with the name of peace is really only a short truce, in accordance with which the weaker party renounces his claims, whether just or unjust, until such time as he can find an opportunity of asserting them with the sword.

Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and made parts for baby carriages and bottle caps, motorcycles and refrigerators, television sets and tricycles-the fruits of peace.

The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anaesthesia.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.

Only a peace between equals can last.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of with his neighbors.