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Peace Quotes
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
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"We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country."
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"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
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"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."
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"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace."
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"Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war."
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"It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace."
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"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace."
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"First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."
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"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God."
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"But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here."
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"World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace."
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"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."
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"Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace."
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"In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure."
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"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."
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"I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace."
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"Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding."
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"A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell."
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"It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening."
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"There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely."
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