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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.


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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
RONALD REAGAN History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
RONALD REAGAN History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap
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UNKNOWN Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be...
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THEHEALTHFOODGURU War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.
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RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so...
RICHARD M. NIXON Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war.
TOBA BETA In George W. Bush's latest reincarnation, he claims to be Reagan-like. Mr. Bush, I know Ronald Reaga...
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ARUNDHATI ROY War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought,...
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people who had suffered loss in the war.
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KELLY JONES There is no peace to be taken
With poets who are young,
For they worry about the wars to be fo...
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FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to ...
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ERIC THORNE We must say in own handwriting from or own minds and hearts that this war is not a war we should be ...
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ANATOLE FRANCE It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB It is certain that the two World Wars in which I have participated would not have occurred had we be...
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GEORGE W. BUSH It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
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FORREST CURRAN If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarma...
BERNARD BARUCH If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarma...
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BERNARD M. BARUCH Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle ...
ABRAHAM KUYPER What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything fr...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL The price of peace can only be valued by the people who had suffered loss in war.
TOBA BETA I like to believe that people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than our gover...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governm...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governm...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governm...
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RONALD REAGAN I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabine...
RONALD REAGAN I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.
RONALD REAGAN How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an ant...
RONALD REAGAN Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
RONALD REAGAN Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in...
RONALD REAGAN Facts are stupid things.
RONALD REAGAN Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the ...
RONALD REAGAN Don't be afraid to see what you see.
RONALD REAGAN Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
RONALD REAGAN Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formida...
RONALD REAGAN My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever...
RONALD REAGAN History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
RONALD REAGAN You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope...
RONALD REAGAN To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the cro...
RONALD REAGAN Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And e...
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