My civil neighbor, the tax-gatherer, is the very man I have to deal with,--for it is, after all, with men and not with parchment t...hat I quarrel,--and he has voluntarily chosen to be an agent of the government. How shall he ever know well what he is and does as an officer of the government, or as a man, until he is obliged to consider whether he shall treat me, his neighbor, for whom he has respect, as a neighbor and well-disposed man, or as a maniac and disturber of the peace, and see if he can get over this obstruction to his neighborliness without a ruder and more impetuous thought or speech corresponding with his action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
John was a very political animal. The thing that politics did and that fame as an entertainer didn't do was provide you with an en...gine for propagating your theories and beliefs. The one thing John would have liked more than anything else was his own political machine. Even though he would profess that politics is bullshit, he just wouldn't call it "politics." He'd call it "peace."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be naive to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically r...esolve the problems.... However, with faith and perseverance,... complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace. They can be resolved in the future, provided, of course, that we can think of five new ways to measure the height of a tall building by using a barometer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the genuine hope that this peace will be permanent, we take the opportunity to pay homage to all our fighters, commandos and vo...lunteers who have paid the supreme sacrifice. They did not die in vain. The union is safe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judgin...g he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by powe...r enough to give authority to its decrees. ... Unless a league something like this results at our peace conference, we shall merely drop back into armed hostility and international anarchy. The war will have been fought in vain ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »