“If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'”
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“I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.”
“Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.”
“Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.”
“There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.”
“The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.”
“We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.”
“Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.”
“Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.”
“I have had a very difficult time with stage fright it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.”
“I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.”
“Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.”
“That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.”
“I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.”
“We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.”
“I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.”
“Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.”
“I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.”
“One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.”
“I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.”
“Peace without justice is tyranny.”
“When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.”
“I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.”
“I fought for peace in the fifties.”