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"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
"Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."
"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power."
"How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns."
"When you're at peace with your life and in a state of tranquility, you actually send out a vibration of energy that impacts all living creatures, including plants, animals and even babies."
"Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution."
"O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant."
"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."
"Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter."
"Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe."
"Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt."
"The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty."
"Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground."
"Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion."
"There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest."
"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."
"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
"The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force."
"Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding"
