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Peace Quotes
"When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom."
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"The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal."
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"If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it."
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"To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order."
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"Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it."
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"Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher."
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"It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace."
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"Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience."
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"I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace."
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"I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity."
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"Good soul easily sleeps well."
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"Peace, a commodity purchased with friendship and safety and anything comfortable and all things familiar; peace that was a pleasant melody playing through the moments of their day; a chord striking only the notes of security and agreement and understanding and order."
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"Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?"
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"Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom."
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"It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous."
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"I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies."
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"Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced."
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"God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it."
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"Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security."
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"To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding."
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"I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement."
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"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."
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"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
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"At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you."
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"Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first."
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"Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace."
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"Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability."
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"I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict."
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"Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations."
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"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."
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