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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

The only failures are those who fail to try.

This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.