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Peace Quotes by Thomas Paine
- Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
- The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all…
- Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor…
- If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
- I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
- An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
- It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
- My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
- If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections,…
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