A Hope For Peace.

 Again, others have said it best.

" I prefer peace. But if trouble must come,

 let it come in my time, so that my children  can live in peace. "

Thomas Paine

" People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready

 to do violence on their behalf. "

George Orwell

" An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. "

Mahatma Gandhi

" Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. "

Albert Einstein

" You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. "

Indira Gandhi

" Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; 

peace is our gift to each other. "

Elie Wiesel

" Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. "

Thomas Merton

" To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. "

George Washington

" The soldier above all others prays for peace,

 for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. "

Douglas MacArthur

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