My opinion is that the Northern States will manage somehow to muddle through.

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

The Union has become an important force of peace in the international arena,

We have signed an agreement to bring peace to Kosovo. We hope that the force of the international community will make Yugoslavia sign. We say: the violence must stop.

If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.