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If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace. ↗

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time. ↗

— George William Norris

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And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs. ↗

— Shimon Peres

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However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

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The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit. ↗

— William H. Seward

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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#even #hope #hopes #maintained #out

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

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Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war. ↗