“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”– Amelia Earhart Related Quotes “Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”– Baruch Spinoza “The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.”– Ed Bradley “The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual’s greed for power and the electorates’ desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.”– David Mamet