“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair
“World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.”
— Gifford Pinchot
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There are better ways we can transform
“There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred – by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.”
— Helen Thomas
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Here men from the planet Earth first
“Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.”
— Neil Armstrong
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It has been, after all, 11 years,
“It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.”
— Condoleezza Rice
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I therefore declare, that if you wish
“I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.”
— Richard Cobden
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Whether it be a matter of personal
“Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.”
— Seamus Heaney
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The choice, however, is as clear now
“The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.”
— Lester B. Pearson
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Let love flow so that it cleanses
“Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.”
— Sai Baba
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When resources are degraded, we start competing
“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.”
— Wangari Maathai
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I came here as a practical man,
“I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance – the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.”
— Richard Cobden
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