Quote by Tony Blair
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. Its not big powers goin

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. Its not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. – Tony Blair

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I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. Its your choice. – Tony Blair

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power
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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. – Tony Blair

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War
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But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential. – Tony Blair

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Peace
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The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Peace

On Memorial Day, I dont 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. – Eric Burdon

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Peace

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody. – Gertrude Stein

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Peace

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Peace

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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton. – Jimmy Carter

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I married beneath me — all women do. – Nancy Astor, speech, Oldham, England, 1951

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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. – Iris Murdoch

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