Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.