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“A Nordic union between Scandinavia and Great Britain, with the adherence of Finland and Holland, and in which Germany and eventually the British Dominions and America might later on be absorbed, would take away the sting of any communist combination and secure European civilization and peace for the foreseeable future”. –Vidkun Quisling

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else”. –Marvin Gaye

“A State is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and dis-establish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate habits, and to censor opinions. The modern State claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and democrats”. –Walter Lippmann

“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons”. –Herodotus

“I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of man. Harry says he’s not and that he doesn’t want anything except security for his own country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask for nothing in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace”. –Franklin D. Roosevelt

“You don’t make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies”. –Yitzhak Rabin

“Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us”. –Golda Meir

“Anything you cannot relinquish, when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions”. –Peace Pilgrim

“To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace”. –Tacitus