"We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless."
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"As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy."
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"Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace."
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"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."
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"Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories."
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"It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village."
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"We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid."
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"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."
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"...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."
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"The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him."
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"If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life."
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"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
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"Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness."
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"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."
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"This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force."
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"Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted."
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"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it."
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"When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one."
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"Maybe tomorrow when He looks down Every green field and every town All of his children every nation There'll be peace and good, brotherhood... Crystal blue persuasion."
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"There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance."
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