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Peace Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing…
- Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives…
- The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in…
- The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
- I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
- War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
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- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale