"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."
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"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage."
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"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
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"War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else."
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"A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes."
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"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
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"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
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"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."
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"Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable."
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
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"The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share."
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"I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed."
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"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."
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"[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth."
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"Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole."
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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
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"When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real duty, we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed...Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious."
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"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
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"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
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"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."
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