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This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade.

Peace be with you.

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee.

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

The trenchant blade Toledo trusty. For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself for lack Of somebody to hew and hack.

Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace!

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place!

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

War leads to peace.

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

Nor is heaven always at peace.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."