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"The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace."
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"In quietness we find inner peace."

"You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together."

"Don't resist. Accept it to create memories, and then let it go."

"To be in peace, grow calmness and compassion in your heart."

"Peace is a process of self-realization, a realization that peace resides inside us, in our inner calmness and tranquility."
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"As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties."

"It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world."

"One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world."

"The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis."

"It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system."

"The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations."

"In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war."

"Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries."

"The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations."

"But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League."
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