“We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.”
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“I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.”
“Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.”
“My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.”
“All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.”
“Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.”
“A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.”
“Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.”
“It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.”
“United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.”
“Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.”
“I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.”
“The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.”
“The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.”
“The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.”
“Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.”
“There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.”
“The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.”
“I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.”
“The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.”
“They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.”
“Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.”
“Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!”
“But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.”