Everyone can see how communism rots the soul of a nation. How it makes it abject in peace and proves it abominable in war.

There's one thing we're all waiting for, it's peace on earth and end to war, it's the miracle we need ... The Miracle!

One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace.

International anarchy destroys every foundation for peace. It jeopardizes either the immediate or the future security of every nation, large or small.