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The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.

The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong.

The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

The dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace.

The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness

The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.

The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and you presume that there is no chance for peace between you two. On the same token when you see two individuals who are exactly two opposites, never say it would be impossible for them to reconcile. On the contrary, and this is the perfection of peace to make it between two opposites.

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.

The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost.

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the body dies; it will remain when the mountains depart and the hills shall be removed, and when the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. The fountain of His comfort shall never be diminished, and the stream shall never be dried. His comfort and joy is a living spring in the soul, a well of water springing up to everlasting life.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

The future of nations cannot be frozen . . . cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human affairs. History is a story of growth, decay and change. If no provision, no allowance is made for change by peaceful means, it will come anyway - and with violence.