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Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. – Herodotus

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Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process. – Martin McGuinness

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. – Victor Hugo

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Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims. – James Q. Wilson

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