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Peace Quotes
"The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country."
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"Many people have the confused idea that peace will happen when all the colors in the palette are the same. The actuality of peace is accepting each color's differences and seeing the beauty each possesses."
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"Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace."
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"Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction."
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"In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans."
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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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"Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well."
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"I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table."
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"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."
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"The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it."
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"Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace."
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"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."
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"We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace."
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"Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind."
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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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"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace."
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"Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006."
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"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
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"As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved."
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"Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence."
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"They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict."
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“Within a world of free trade and democracy, there are no incentives for war and conquest. In such a world, it is of no concern whether a nation's sovereignty stretches over a larger or smaller territory. Its citizens cannot derive any advantage from the annexation of a province. If territorial problems can be treated without bias and passion, it is not painful to be fair to other people's claims for self-determination.”
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"To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone."
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"I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity."
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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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"When you make your peace with authority, you become authority."
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"It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system."
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"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
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