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The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.
- Aristide Briand
Information is the currency of democracy.
- Thomas Jefferson
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann
Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln
Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength?
- Barbara Deming
No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne
If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy
Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.
- John F. Kennedy
There is no conflict that cannot be resolved. Violent conflict is created and sustained by human beings, and it can be ended by human beings.
- George Mitchell
Hatred injures the hater as well as the hated. Love blesses the lover as well as the loved. This is hard economics as well as good common sense.
- Kenneth Boulding
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
- Nelson Mandela
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
- Lord Chesterfield
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
- Pat Schroeder
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.