"They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people."
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"One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life."
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"We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities."
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"I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect."
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"I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource."
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"War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind."
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"I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries than by war, which is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer."
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"You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself, the world has had proofs, and more, perhaps, than it has approved. I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the dispos[i]tion to war; but of its abolition I despair."
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"Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object."
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"Peace is our passion."
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"Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace"
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"Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his "right mind." p. 31"
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"That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy."
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"The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself."
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"It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary."
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"Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms."
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""Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it."
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"Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect."
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"I am grown peaceful as old age tonight."
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"Peace we achieve When we do not expect anything From the world, But only give, give, and give Unconditionally What we have and what we are."
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