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Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
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