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"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice." »Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
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"peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed." »Harry S Truman
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"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'" »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace." »Barbara Hall
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"the triumph of justice is the only peace." »Robert Green Ingersoll
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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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"the hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death." »Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
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"peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism." »Dorothy Thompson
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"All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field." »Albert Einstein
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"It is difficult for intellect, technology, and peace to coexist. Not because peace is static where the other two require constant stimulation. peace can embrace change. It is because we live in a world where intellect and technology compete for power. And peace does not allow for inequality or competition." »Andrea Scholer, author and philosopher
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"Liberty, equality - bad principles! the only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness." »Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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"Liberty, equality - bad principles the only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"the name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death." »Cicero
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"But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings." »John F. Kennedy
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"the law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be." »Raymond Chandler
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"justice delayed, is justice denied." »William Gladstone
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"justice delayed is justice denied." »William Gladstone
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"Next in importance to Freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained." »James Abram Garfield
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"Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done." »George W. Bush
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"God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands." »George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
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"War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in." »D. H. Lawrence
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"peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner." »Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004
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"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace." »Francesco Petrarch
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"the world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith." »John Foster Dulles
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"If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace." »John Russell
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"A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace." »Gersonides
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