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    I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time in Vietnam told me many stories—but none more chilling than the one from two helicopter pilots. They told me how they would shoot the friendlies on their way back from reconnaissance missions just so they could empty their ammunition before returning to base. The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. But to the American pilots, they were simply dots on the ground.
    Whitehead is a political conservative.

    by John Whitehead Found in Peace Quotes,
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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of
more service than civil war.
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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of
more service than civil war.
[Lat., Mihi enim omnis pax cum civibus bello civili utilior
videbatur.]

by Cicero (marcus Tullius Cicero) Found in: Peace Quotes,
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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

by Ambrose Bierce Found in: Peace Quotes,
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

by Lyndon Baines Johnson Found in: Peace Quotes,
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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

by Indian Proverb Found in: Nonviolence Quotes, Peace Quotes,
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Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease,
He makes a solitude and calls it--peace!

Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease,
He makes a solitude and calls it--peace!

by George Gordon Noel Byron Found in: Peace Quotes,
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And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swords into read more

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and
their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

by Bible Found in: Peace Quotes,
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of read more

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

by Dag Hammarskjold Found in: Peace Quotes,
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President Sadat was killed by an extremist Muslim
President Rabin was killed by an extremist Jew
Mahatma Gandhi was killed read more

President Sadat was killed by an extremist Muslim
President Rabin was killed by an extremist Jew
Mahatma Gandhi was killed by an extremist Hindu
at Cleveland City Club..
(to which could be added:
Many American soldiers have been killed by extremist Christians).

by Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Found in: Peace Quotes,
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

by Adlai Ewing Stevenson Found in: Peace Quotes,
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