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Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disg

Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace. – James Thomson

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I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? – James Thomson

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The old interests of aristocracy – the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war – faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization. – Lytton Strachey

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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction. – Lester B. Pearson

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I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population. – Paul Robeson

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I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. – James Conrad

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