I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Peace has its victories no less than war but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive and you never know - the cliche is I guess you could get hit by a bus tomorrow so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.

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

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.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

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.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

There are no absolute rules of conduct either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.