#peace

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace ↗

— Dean Koontz

#loneliness #peace #reflection #solitude #tranquility

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#imperialism #independence #isolationism #liberty #noninterventionism

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#ideals #ideas #peace #resolve #values

If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#acceptance-of-others #awakening #enlightenment #freedom #life-s-truths

I've found that the less stuff I own, the less my stuff owns me. ↗

— Nathan W. Morris

#freedom #minimalism #peace #freedom

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together. ↗

— Oscar Arias Sanchez

#common #common interests #differences #ending #ignore

We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens. ↗

— Rafik Hariri

#accountable #agreement #anything #basis #because

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#does #hate #love #mercy #peace

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#hope #humanity #i #opinion #peace

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#chance #conditions #corps #first #give