William S. Cohen Quotes

The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.

William S. Cohen

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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?

  

  Hans Rosling
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• From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

  

  Eamon de Valera
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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.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

  

  Vernon Howard
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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!

  

  Daniel Boone
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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.

  

  Oliver Tambo
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• For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
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• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

  

  Karl Marx
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• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  

  Garry Wills
  • War
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• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
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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?

  

  Nadine Labaki
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• Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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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.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
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• I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

  

  Chris Matthews
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• I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• I reserve the right, as president of the United States to meet with anybody at a time and place of my choosing if I think it's going to keep America safe.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that all her dreams are sweet? Said now, would ya guide her on the roads, and make them softer for her feet? Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that she's gonna be alright, until she's home and here with me.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Home
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• The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.

  

  William S. Cohen
  • War
  • Peace
  • Miracle