"The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul."
-Herbert Hoover
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"Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.“
-Herbert Hoover
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"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next."
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"Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next."
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"It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war."
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"When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man."
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"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
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"The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security."
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"As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week."
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"On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live."
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"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
-Richard Cobden
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"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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