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I observe that there are two e...

I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them.

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There is so much of good in hu...

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

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Prejudice and passion and susp...

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

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Human life is held in much hig...

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

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Honest people, mistakenly beli...

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

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Moral disarmament is to safegu...

Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.

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The worst, the hardest, the mo...

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

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It is to be observed that ever...

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

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The framers of the Constitutio...

The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created the Senate to fulfill that high and vitally important duty.

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It is not uncommon in modern t...

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

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The law of the survival of the...

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

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The attractive idea that we ca...

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

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About half the practice of a d...

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

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The point of departure of the ...

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

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The methods of peace propagand...

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

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In the first place, when there...

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

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The mere assemblage of peace l...

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

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Cruelty to men and to the lowe...

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

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It is only through the power o...

It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.

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The theoretical postulate of a...

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

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