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Franklin D. Roosevelt, fully Franklin Delano Roosevelt, aka FDR
The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."
Henrik Ibsen, aka Henrik Johan Ibsen
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.
Henry Kissinger, fully Henry Alfred Kissinger
If peace teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
Since trifles make the sum of human things, and half our misery from our foibles springs; since life’s best joys consist in peace and ease, and few can save or serve, but all may please; Oh! let th’ ungentle spirit learn from hence a small unkindness is a great offense, large bounties to restore we wish in vain, but all may shun the guilt of giving pain.
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Henry Miller, aka Henry Valentine Miller
Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!
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Henry Kissinger, fully Henry Alfred Kissinger
Two centuries ago, the philosopher Kant predicted that perpetual peace would come about eventually – either as the creation of man’s moral aspirations or as the consequence of physical necessity. What seemed utopian then looms as tomorrow’s reality; soon there will be no alternative.
Henry Kissinger, fully Henry Alfred Kissinger
When nations are able to inflict tens of millions of casualties in a matter of hours, peace has become a moral imperative.
Henry Kissinger, fully Henry Alfred Kissinger
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restrain.
When the thinking man has conquered the temptations to vice, and is conscious of having done his (often hard) duty, he finds himself in a state of peace and satisfaction which may well be called happiness, in which virtue is her own reward.
James Froude, fully James Anthony Froude
We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.