And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.
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.
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.
Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.
Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
I really am a woman at peace.
In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.
The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.
A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.
The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
