Quotes with peace-at-any-price

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  • Harry S. Truman In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Al Sharpton In order to establish peace, you must have fair justice for everyone.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Sinclair Lewis In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Arthur Henderson In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Croesus In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Anita Brookner In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Orson Welles In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Barack Obama In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Burt Rutan In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Samuel Huntington In the emerging era, clashes of civilization are the greatest threat to world peace, and an international order based on civilizations is the surest safeguard against world war.
    Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p.321
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Dhammapada In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Abigail Adams In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
    Source: Letter to John Adams, 31 March 1776
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • George Eliot In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Adam Savage In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Bill Pascrell In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Swami Brahmananda In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
    Swami Brahmananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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