"People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security."
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"Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, we must be prepared to make whatever sacrifices are demanded as we pursue this path to its end."
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"The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace."
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""War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature."
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"That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention."
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"Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor."
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"Who among us has not sought peace in a song?"
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"Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low."
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"May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies."
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"The Germans, a race eager for war."
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"Hatred of war will not bring peace. Only love of peace will bring about those conditions."
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"War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing... but controlled and purposeful violence."
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"Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without."
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"God has not forgotten To give us peace. He is just waiting for us To ask for it."
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"When we listen to the Inner Voice, our outer life becomes full of peace."
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"Power... Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to the people, training and equipping indigenous military and police forces, strategic communications, and more of these, along with security, are essential ingredients for long-term success."
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"The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them."
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"The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness."
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"I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all."
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"The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines."
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