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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

Peace is, indeed, our policy. A kind Providence has cast our lot on a portion of the globe sufficiently vast to satisfy the most grasping ambition, and abounding in resources beyond all others, which only require to be fully developed to make us the greatest and most prosperous people on earth.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.