"We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war."
-Jimmy Carter
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"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.“
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