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Peace Quotes
"At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam."
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"The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power."
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"I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge."
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"We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity."
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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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"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."
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"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime."
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"In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans."
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"Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom."
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"That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson."
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"I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others."
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"We are the people who believe in Vasudeva Kutumbakam...we want the world to move ahead with peace and prosperity."
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"We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country."
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"I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples."
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"Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq."
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"Peace is not merely the absence of war or conflict but the presence of tranquility, harmony and love."
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"You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace."
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"But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way."
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"What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record."
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"One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force."
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"For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade."
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"Within a few weeks the organization for the maintenance of international peace and security, established by the San Francisco Charter, will be formally launched through the convocation of the first General Assembly of the United Nations."
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"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."
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"I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive."
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"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war."
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"I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all."
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"Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive."
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"I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw."
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"If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace."
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