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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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
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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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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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I went to my agent and told them, 'I want to be on another Disney show.'
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I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.
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We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.
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The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.
