"Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour."
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"A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang."
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"I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody."
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"Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility."
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"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."
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"We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow."
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"There can be no peace without law."
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"You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets."
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"What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!"
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"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization."
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"If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States."
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"...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?"
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"Order is heaven's first law. Order is earth's first law, too."
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"I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful," they say, "why would I bother taking action at all?""
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"A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace."
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"He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist."
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"It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale."
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"Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet...But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the grow ing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it."
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"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state."
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"The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly."
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