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Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where the

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. – Lin Yutang

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I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. – Lin Yutang

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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. – Lin Yutang

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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. – William Hazlitt

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I declare that I will establish peace in this world. – Prem Rawat

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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. – Ludwig von Mises

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Seven days without laughter makes one weak. – Mort Walker

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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God. – Mahatma Gandhi

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In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time. – George J. Mitchell

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Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years – and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush. – Ann Coulter

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