William S. Cohen Quotes
The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.
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To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
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Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
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We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.
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I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.
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If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
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We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.
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I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the culture.
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The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.
