"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can."
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"There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect."
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"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime."
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"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
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"It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice"
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"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice."
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"It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn."
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"Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer."
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"In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected."
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"The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting."
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"Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace."
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"Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests."
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"Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds."
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"Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit."
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"We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it."
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"Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return."
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"Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best."
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"One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls."
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"Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance."
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"Don't agonize, organize."
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