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Famous quotes containing the words years, war and/or peace:

    “Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man; and should they be beautiful, every thing else is needless, for, at least, twenty years of their lives.”
    —Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

    “[W]e must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation that most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “... peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.”
    —Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)