Quote by Sargent Shriver
I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative t

I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us. – Sargent Shriver

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Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them? – Sargent Shriver

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Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. – Sargent Shriver

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Peace
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As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadnt occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it. – Sargent Shriver

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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein. – John Major

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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand! – Daniel Boone

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What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars. – Mikhail Gorbachev

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Im on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and weve never been closer. – Mandy Patinkin

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