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Abraham Lincoln
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| "Ah, when shall all men"s good Be each man"s rule, and universal
peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams
athwart the sea, Thro" all the circle of the golden year?" | |
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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| "An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes
have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry." | |
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Thomas Stearns Eliot
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| "An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes
have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry." | |
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George Eliot
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| "Ask any man"s permission when we ask him to obey it." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no
change, but between change for the better and change for the worse." | |
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Clifford Hugh Douglas
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| "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." | |
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The Bible
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| "Even war is better than a wretched peace." | |
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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| "Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at
peace, and his speech and action peaceful. He has no need for faith who
knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any
opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the
ultimate man." | |
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Guatama Buddha
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| "Hold out the olive branch." | |
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Proverb
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| "I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than
the most just war." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the
understanding which bringeth peace." | |
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Helen Adams Keller
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| "I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities A still and
quiet conscience." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love
and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they
keep getting a busy signal ? and they"ll soon forget my number." | |
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Edith Armstrong
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| "I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be
President." | |
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William Allen White
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| "If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did
gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon
those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they
would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another
way." | |
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George Gurdjieff
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| "If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period
of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and
helpful way toward one another." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede
cannonshots." | |
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Napoléon Bonaparte
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| "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong
to each other." | |
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Mother Teresa
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| "If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from
outward sources." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for
war. ?In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than
to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labours of
peace." | |
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André Gide
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| "It is far easier to make war than to make peace." | |
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Georges Clemenceau
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| "It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we
are." | |
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James Mackintosh
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| "It isn"t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it
isn"t enough to believe in it. One must work at it." | |
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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| "Just living is not enough ... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a
little flower." | |
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Hans Christian Andersen
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| "Let him who desires peace, prepare for war." | |
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Renatus Flavius Vegetius
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| "Let us have peace." | |
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Ulysses S. Grant
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| "No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace ? in peace
sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons." | |
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Croesus of Lydia
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| "Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained
through understanding." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn"t have as
many monuments to unveil." | |
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Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
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| "Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War." | |
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John Milton
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| "Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step
at a time." | |
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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| "Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on." | |
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Thucydides
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| "Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind
brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of
war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful
people." | |
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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| "Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by
which we arrive at that goal." | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| "Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more
Arduous." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no
finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement.
Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions." | |
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Oscar Arias
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| "Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful." | |
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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| "Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun; and the
two are never far apart." | |
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Charles Caleb Colton
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| "Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age." | |
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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| "PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two
periods of fighting." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will
not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn"t be peace at any cost
but peace based on principle, on justice." | |
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Corazon C. Aquino
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| "Shall I not inform you of a better act than fasting, alms, and
prayers? Making peace between one another: enmity and malice tear up
heavenly rewards by the roots." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that
the defenses of peace must be constructed. United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organizations" | |
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Unknown
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| "The gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace! But there is no peace. The war
has actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to
our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the
field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that the gentlemen wish? What
would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at
the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what
course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me
death!" | |
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Patrick Henry
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| "The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory
on both sides." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and
for peace like retarded pygmies." | |
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Lester Bowles Pearson
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| "The mere absence of war is not peace. The mere absence of recession
is not growth." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war." | |
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Hyman George Rickover
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| "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." | |
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A.J. Muste
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| "There never was a good war, or a bad peace." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "They buried the hatchet, but in a shallow, well-marked grave." | |
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Dorothy Walworth
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| "Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own
generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our
grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath
the ground." | |
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Peacemaker
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| "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of
preserving the peace." | |
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George Washington
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| "To secure peace is to prepare for war." | |
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Carl von Clausewitz
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| "War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." | |
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Thomas Mann
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| "We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more
destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his
body. Chains are worse than bayonets." | |
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Douglas Jerrold
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| "We make war that we might live in peace." | |
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Aristotle
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| "We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom." | |
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General Dwight David Eisenhower
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| "Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as
we are for war." | |
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John Andrew Holmes
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| "You have to take chances for peace, just as you take chances in war.
The ability to get to the verge without getting into war is the necessary
art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink,
you are lost." | |
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John Foster Dulles
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| "Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes
20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to
destroy him." | |
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King Baudouin I
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