#peace

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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Peace is a conscious choice. ↗

— John Denver

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But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

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The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

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Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace. ↗

— Julien Benda

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I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

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