peace quotes

Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the last 30 years.

-Adams, Gerry (Gerard)
  In the Daily Telegraph,11  Apr.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

-Addison,Joseph
  Last words, to his stepson Lord Warwick. Quoted in EdwardYoung Conjectures on Original Composition (1759).

Pees maketh plente; Plente maketh pride; Pride make plee; Plee maketh povert; Povert maketh pees. Peace makes plenty; Plenty makes pride; Pride makes lawsuits; Lawsuits make poverty; Poverty makes peace.

-Anonymous
c.1470  Untitled lyric.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon, July1969.We came in peace for all mankind.

-Anonymous
AD1969  Text of the plaque left on the moon by the first astronauts to walk there, Buzz  Aldrin and Neil  Armstrong, 20  Jul.

The castor oil of the Palestinian peace movement.

-Anonymous
  Of PLO ChairYassir  Arafat. In NPR broadcast, 4  Jul.

   Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Lines written in Kensington Garden'.

Let us reunite ourselves with our better mind and with the world through science; and let it be one of our angelic revenges on the Philistines, who among their other sins are theguiltyauthors of Fenianism, tofound at Oxford a chair of Celtic, and to send, through the gentle ministration of science, a message of peace to Ireland.

-Arnold, Matthew
  'On the Study of Celtic Literature'.

When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'The Unknown Citizen'.

Hark! The herald angels sing! Beecham's Pills are just the thing, Two for a woman, one for a child, Peace on earth and mercy mild!

-Beecham, SirThomas
Quoted in Neville Cardus Sir Thomas Beecham (1961). Sir Thomas was heir to the Beecham pharmaceutical company.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

-Beveridge,William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron
  Social Insurance and  Allied Services, pt.7.

The L bless thee, and keep thee: The L makehisfaceshineuponthee, and be gracious unto thee: The L lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDNumbers 6:24^6.

Is it peace? and Jehu said,What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 9:18.

But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 37:11.

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms119:165.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms122:6^7.

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that gettethunderstanding.For themerchandise of it isbetter than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the thingsthoucanst desirearenottobe compared untoher. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 3:13^18.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Atimeto be born, and atimeto die; atimetoplant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; Atimetoweep, and atimeto laugh; atimetomourn, and a time to dance: A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 3:1^8.

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son isgiven: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,Counseller,The mighty God, The everlasting Father,The Prince of Peace.Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, uponthethrone of David, and uponhis kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the L of hosts will perform this.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 9:6^7.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 26:3.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion,Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the L shall bring again Zion.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 52:7^8.

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