Where I once constantly lost my temper I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

Making peace I have found is much harder than making war.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

The greater the state the more wrong and cruel its patriotism and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.