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I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.
(Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. At the Palazzo in Milan, Italy (January 5, 1919).)
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
(Malcolm X (1925-1965), U.S. African-American leader. speech, Jan. 7, 1965, New York City. "Prospects for Freedom in 1965," ch. 12, Malcolm X Speaks (1965).
Birth name Malcolm Little.)
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They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
(Georg Bόchner (1813-1837), German dramatist, revolutionary. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1994). Danton's Death, act I (1835).)
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If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.
(John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792-1878), British Whig politician. speech, Sept. 19, 1853, Greenock, Scotland. quoted in Times (London, Sept. 21, 1853).
On the growing crisis in the Crimea, which erupted into war the following year.)
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It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
(Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960), British Labour politician. speech, Nov. 4, 1956.
At rally protesting Britain's armed intervention in the Suez dispute.)
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Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace but a peace I hope with honour.
(Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman, author. Quoted in Times (London, July 17, 1878).
Remark on returning from the Berlin Congress convened to resolve the European crisis (the "Eastern Question"). See John Russell's comment on "peace." The words "peace with honour" were used by Neville Chamberlain in 1938. See Chamberlain's comment on "World War II.")
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You shall love peace as a means to new wars—and the short peace more than the long one.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sδmtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 4, p. 58, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Zarathustra, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First Part, "On War and Warriors," (1883).)
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Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace—but a peace I hope with honour.
(Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman, author. Quoted in Times (London, July 17, 1878).
Remark on returning from the Berlin Congress convened to resolve the European crisis (the "Eastern Question"). The words "peace with honour" were used by Neville Chamberlain in 1938. See Chamberlain on "World War II.")
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