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    My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.

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    My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

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    Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

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    Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

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    Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

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    National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

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    My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

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    Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

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    Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

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    Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

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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.

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    Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

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    Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames.

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    No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

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    Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

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    Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

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    Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

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    Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

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    No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.

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    Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion.

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    Nobody who's ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.

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    No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

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    Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.

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    No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

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    No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace.

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    None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

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    No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

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    No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.

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    No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

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    Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

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    Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

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    Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

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    Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

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    Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

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    Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

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    Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

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    Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

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    Non-violence is the article of faith.

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    No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

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    No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

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    Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

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    Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. 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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    Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

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    No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

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    No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?

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    No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.

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    No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

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    No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.

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    No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

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    Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.