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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart." »Patanjali
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"We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all." »Eve Denise Curie
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"Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land. . . . We are ready for exchange for peace." »David Ben-Gurion
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"As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. (On the Vietnam War)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"All politics must cease then we may find world peace, no political leader will bring peace to the world." »Lot Chakonza
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"Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive." »Thich Nhat Hanh
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"It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion." »Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
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"For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie." »The Talmud
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"First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others." »Thomas a Kempis
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"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace." »Helen Keller
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"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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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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"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love." »Frederick Buechner
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"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." »Malcolm X
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"No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons." »Croesus of Lydia
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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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"To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves." »Caitlin Matthews
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