I hope... that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
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PROVERB We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was someth... RUSH D. HOLT, JR. Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. W... JOHN FOSTER DULLES Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps ... PETE DU PONT I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth. ROY KEANE Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as repres... SOURCE UNKNOWN No one starts a war warning that those involved will lose their innocence - that children will defin... ALEXANDRA FULLLER I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do tha... MOTHER TERESA I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have bee... MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN Humans will never settle their differences because difference is THE BIG BUSINESS!! IDDI LUKOO More than 20 years ago, President Kennedy defined an approach that is as valid today as when he anno... RONALD REAGAN I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at on... BILL NYE For better or worse, pessimism without compromise lacks public appeal. In all, the few who have gone... THOMAS LIGOTTI I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman qu... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT That is very cool that Benjamin Franklin walked the streets here. I read about Franklin in a library... ASHLEY JOHNSON I think there is a sense of relief. We talked at length at breakfast and I got the impression that i... BOB HILL I am in favor of a foreign policy that will cultivate relations of peace with all nations, and I wil... AMBROSE BURNSIDE I will, without hesitation, walk away from anything and anyone that threatens my peace or sense of s... IZEY VICTORIA ODIASE I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman qu... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT They had the momentum at that time. Was it a good call or a bad call? I'm not going to say it was a ... WALLY BUONO Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always b... ROBERT WARSHOW It was never my intention to point out that war is good or war is bad. I just wanted to provide an e... BRANDON SPECK They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war... DOROTHY THOMPSON The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic America... ANNALEE NEWITZ We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won&... NOAM CHOMSKY One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any ho... SAMM LEVINE I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a goo... DOROTHY MOORE I have a willingness to put in as much time as is necessary for my students. I hope my students will... JENNIFER OWEN They have never hesitated to call me before. I am always on call. Once, my wife broke her wrist, and... JOE GRAY Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin... ALGERNON SYDNEY Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin... ALGERNON SIDNEY There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft withou... JASPER FFORDE War and peace type products... cannot be added into a national product total until the differences i... SIMON KUZNETS War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF They tend to give themselves more opportunities, both players, because of their dominating length, g... JIM FURYK He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?' HERODOTUS They felt like they needed another goalie, they found it and hopefully it's going to be a good fit. ... JUSSI MARKKANEN SOCRATES: They have differences of opinion, as you say, about good and evil, just and unjust, honour... PLATO For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Frank... JON BON JOVI I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who m... GUCCI MANE I don't want them to be cutting each other's throats for the lead or something will come from behind... DAVID ATKINS That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay ar... ALAN VEGA Parents were good to us, gave us a lot, took care for us when we couldn’t have taken care for ours... LUKASZ LANIECKI To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pi... MARK MCCORMACK There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there ar... TERRY GOODKIND Even at that early date, Allan Cutler ... suggested that there was bid-rigging and political interfe... JOHN GOMERY I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I... DOROTHY HAMILL It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact that men have gone to war... WALTER PARKER STACY China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There ar... MARK MOBIUS Our researchers into Public Opinion are content/ That he held the proper opinions for the time of ye... W. H. AUDEN If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my n... CHARLES PORTIS Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. NORMAN MAILER I have never seen much point in getting heavy with stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as th... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as lon... TARAN KILLAM Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where ... SHANNON L. ALDER In my opinion, that has to change. If we are to grow as a region as a tech-based economy, and a know... DAVID BODDE I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and ega... P.J. O'ROURKE I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ULYSSES S. GRANT No, you should stay right where you are, or my estranged brother and I will settle our difference by... RACHEL VINCENT Obviously, there is some apprehension there because they've never umpired at the professional level.... TODD STEVERSON Mullah Omar was generally good to those who worked for him -- in my opinion, he was a good person. H... MOHAMMED RAHIM So engrained in the human heart is the desire to believe that some people really do know what they s... SAMUEL BUTLER The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. ... JOHN FOSTER DULLES The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. P... JOHN FOSTER DULLES The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. ... JOHN FOSTER DULLES Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with ... WILLIAM GLASSER Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism wer... JOSE MOURINHO We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner pe... PEACE PILGRIM Juvenile salmon have a biological clock that begins ticking as soon as they begin their trip to the ... SCOTT BOSSE Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace woul... WINSTON CHURCHILL They'll be doing a lot of interviews with city officials, businesses that have located there and eve... MIKE KOPP Of course. I'm a very liberal-minded person, and I believe that all kinds of people should live in a... BRYAN SINGER The language will give you an insight into whether there has been a shift in their feelings on the e... ADAM BROWN I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY So, yes, in that sense, things look pretty good for Franklin. AMY SAWYER When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My initial call when this was reported as a possible $30 billion deal was, 'That is a nice number, b... FRANK MARSALA Benjamin Franklin: An American Life WALTER ISAACSON So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the w... NICOLAUS COPERNICUS Mankind will never be good enough to "choose" Jesus as Saviour. It takes the mercy and grace of God ... NORM TOMLINSON Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.... the working class who fight all... EUGENE DEBS I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my... CHARLES BARKLEY They are as good as advertised. They are No. 1 in the state for a reason, and I was especially impre... DAN DORSETT What makes people good communicators is, in essence, an ability not to be fazed by the more problema... ALAIN DE BOTTON Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad i... IMMANUEL KANT Benjamin Franklin said the first thing you have to sell is yourself. JOE LAUINGER Despite the madness of war, we lived for a world that would be different. For a better world to come... TADEUSZ BOROWSKI It is a well-known fact that of all the species on earth Homo sapiens is among the most adaptable. S... AMOR TOWLES We must have a religion — it goes without saying — but my idea is, to have it cut up into forty ... MARK TWAIN Interestingly enough, every time I corner a fanatic with scientific facts which they cannot argue or... CHRISTINA ENGELA Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never a... ULYSSES S. GRANT
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