It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideal

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. – Lester B. Pearson

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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. – Douglas William Jerrold

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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. – Lester B. Pearson

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If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. – Chief Joseph

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Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war. – Thor Heyerdahl

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