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But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.

— Lester B. Pearson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

— Lech Walesa

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

— Godfrey Reggio

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

— Mos Def

We want peace, but not at any price.

— Ehud Barak

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

— Buddha

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

— Douglas William Jerrold

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

— John Holmes

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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