"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots".
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace".
- James Conrad
"Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace".
- Francesco Petrarch ...