peaceful quotes

See, free nations are peaceful nations.Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

- GeorgeW(alker) Bush
  Speaking in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 3 Oct.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

-John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
  Speech to Latin  American diplomats,12 Mar.

We know the war prepared On every peaceful home, We know the hells declared For such as serve not Rome, The terror, threats and dread In market, hearth and field: We know when all is said We perish if we yield.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'Ulster'.

   La grande amitie   n'est jamais tranquille. Great friendship is never peaceful.

- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Se  vigne 
Letter to Mme de Grignan,16 Sep.

What could have made her peaceful with a mind That nobleness made simple as a fire, With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this, Being high and solitary and most stern? Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there anotherTroy for her to burn?

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'No SecondTroy', l.6^12. Collected inThe Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910).