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"Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war."
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"The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are... All men die, and most men miserably. That two soldiers on opposite sides, each believing his own country to be in the right, each at the moment when his selfishness is most in abeyance and his will to sacrifice in the ascendant, should kill [each] other in plain battle seems to me by no means one of the most terrible things in this terrible world."
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"It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered."
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"We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods."
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"The evil we create during the wars to save us, it can also end us when the war is over."
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"Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare."
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"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."
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"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."
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"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
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"It is not only the living who are killed in war."
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"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?"
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"Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment."
Courage
"In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic."
Freedom
"One man's transparency is another's humiliation."
Man
"But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that."
Peace
"When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity."
People
"In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north."
Power
"Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open."
Equality
"But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example."
Leadership
"At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means."
Leadership
"Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems."
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