"To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives."
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"The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."
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"War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]"
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"The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference."
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"It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening."
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"What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen."
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"Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood."
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"If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300."
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"It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary."
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"There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism."
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"Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?"
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"The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free."
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"I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace."
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"Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation of the inhabitants of Concord, as exhibited in the Revolution, and on later occasions."
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"The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment."
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"This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future."
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"Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!""
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"When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance."
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"I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright."
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"Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes."
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