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- At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Letter to Mrs. Sarah Brydges Willyams, October 17, 1863
- Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Mr. Dumas, March 24, 1793
- That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to Benjamin Waring and others, March 23, 1801
- For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), Tractatus Politicus
- Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Address to the United States Senate, January 22, 1917
- In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Address, Columbus, Ohio, September 4, 1919
- Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Black Cat, 1843
- The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conservative, Boston, Massachusetts, December 9, 1841
- There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), Address to Radio-Television Executives Society, New York City, September 14, 1955
- Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), Address recorded for the Republican Lincoln Day dinners, January 28, 1964
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