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Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.
– Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
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Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.
– Timothy Geithner
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Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
– James Q. Wilson
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Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.
– Brian Celio
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
– Zebulon Pike
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Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.
– Gerry Adams
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Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
– William Glasser
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Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.
– John Bruton
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Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.
– Joseph Rotblat
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Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.
– Mariel Hemingway
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Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.
– Chen Shui-bian
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Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
– Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
– Sandra Cisneros
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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
– Alexis Carrel
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Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
– Billy Corgan
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President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.
– Lee H. Hamilton
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Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
– Paul Wellstone
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Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
– Tom Lehrer
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
– Honore de Balzac
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Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.
– Hamid Karzai
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Peace, unity and harmony!
– Cathy Freeman
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Peace, of course, is different from divorce indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
– Douglas Feith
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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
– Andrew Jackson
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Peace without justice is tyranny.
– William Allen White
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Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
– George Grosz
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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
– King Abdullah II
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Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
– Georg Buchner
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Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.
– Alanis Morissette
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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
– Joseph Heller
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Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.
– Ariel Sharon
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Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.
– Edwin Louis Cole
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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
– Friedrich Schiller
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Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
– John Buchan
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Peace is produced by war.
– Pierre Corneille
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Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
– Benjamin Netanyahu
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
– Oscar Hammerstein II
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
– Baruch Spinoza
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
– George Bernard Shaw
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Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.
– Anwar Sadat
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Peace is important for Israel.
– Ehud Olmert
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Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
– Martin Luther
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
– Charles de Montesquieu
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Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
– Oscar Arias Sanchez
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Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.
– Darrell Issa
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Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.
– Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
– Martin Luther
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Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.
– Sharon Stone
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Peace does not include a vendetta there will be neither winners nor losers.
– Ahmed Ben Bella
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
– Pablo Neruda
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Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.
– Fredrik Bajer
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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.
– Thomas Jefferson
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
– Saint Teresa of Avila
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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
– William Shakespeare
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Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
– Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
– Deepak Chopra
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Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
– John Boyd Orr
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Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.
– David O. McKay
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Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
– Stefan Zweig
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Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
– Yitzhak Rabin
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One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.
– Anna Lindh
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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
– Baz Luhrmann
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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
– Peace Pilgrim
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
– Daniel Berrigan
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On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
– Natan Sharansky
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On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
– Eric Burdon
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On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.
– Jimmy Carter
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Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
– Jackie Chan
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Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
– Thomas a Kempis
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Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.
– Theodore C. Sorensen
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Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.
– Donald Cargill
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Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
– Richard Dawkins
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Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.
– Elihu Root
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
– Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.
– Alcee Hastings
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
– Theodor Adorno
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Never be in a hurry do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
– Saint Francis de Sales
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Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
– Woodrow Wilson
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My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.
– Joseph Rotblat
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My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.
– Brent Scowcroft
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My message is all about peace.
– Puff Daddy
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My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.
– Maureen O'Hara
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My different personalities leave me in peace now.
– Anna Freud
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My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
– Jimmy Carter
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My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
– Omar Bongo
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Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.
– Gil Scott-Heron
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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
– King Abdullah II
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Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.
– Brendan Fraser
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Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.
– Benjamin Netanyahu
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Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
– Benazir Bhutto
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Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.
– David O. McKay
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Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.
– Raul Julia
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Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
– Morgan Freeman
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Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.
– Lena Horne
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Making peace is harder than making war.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
– Georges Bernanos
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