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

Peace Train is a song I wrote the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but if this War should continue I wish to have the most active part in it.

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace cultivate justice but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.

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.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?