Peaceful Times Quotes

Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history.

The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.

Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this.... Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm.... The remembrance then of what is past, if it operates rightly must inspire her with the most laudable of an ambition, that of adding to the fair fame she began with. The world has seen her great adversity.... Let then, the world see that she can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

It accords with the good order of the realm and the peacefulness of our times that each should have freedom to worship God after his own choice.

I don't believe in perfection, but those acrimony-free gaps during our family holidays can be downright blissful.