And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)

John F. Kennedy

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I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

Howard Fast

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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Ronald Reagan

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Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Thomas Jefferson

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In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus

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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

Muriel Rukeyser

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When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Dalai Lama XIV

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As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

Muriel Rukeyser

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We are against war and the sources of war.
We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

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Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind.

[Address before the United Nations, September 25 1961]

John F. Kennedy

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