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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

George William Curtis

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

George Bernard Shaw

Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Felix Adler

This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them!

Albert Einstein

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

John Quincy Bible

The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."

Henry Clay

Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Alice A. Bailey

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Larry Eisenberg

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish though eternal peace.

Adolf Hitler

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Peace Pilgrim

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Turkish Proverb

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

President Sadat was killed by an extremist Muslim President Rabin was killed by an extremist Jew Mahatma Gandhi was killed by an extremist Hindu at Cleveland City Club.. (to which could be added: Many American soldiers have been killed by extremist Christians).

Prince Bandar Bin Sultan

Roger Normand: Bomb now. Die later.

Roger Normand

I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time in Vietnam told me many stories—but none more chilling than the one from two helicopter pilots. They told me how they would shoot the friendlies on their way back from reconnaissance missions just so they could empty their ammunition before returning to base. The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. But to the American pilots, they were simply dots on the ground. Whitehead is a political conservative.

John Whitehead

I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the last man to die in a war termed a mistake that he was dead.

John Unknown

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Kin Hubbard

Our commander said the Viet Cong are farmers by day.. guerillas by night. Look for those who are tired. So anyone who yawned was getting popped.

Seymour Hersh

Alternative Terror War Tanks rolled over to Jenin and its Refugee Camp As battlefields in a minute Clouds of black smokes belched From the nozzle of the missiles Turned the dwellings into debris And lives breathe under rubble Still desires of living That will never be fulfilled Sighing are heard in the air Unseen ghosts are roaming freely Searching their brotherhoods Living or dead Souls are still weeping bitterly With sorrows that never end In the war turned atmosphere Flying high in the sky appeared The hungry vultures that smell Odors of rotten human flesh As if the open graveyards To wipe the terrors and even its ghosts Out of the worldly atmosphere Reassuring pure peace In every people’s mind Is’t the rebirth of terror Or alternative terror ? © Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar.

Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

David Borenstein

Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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