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• I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war. -- Cicero
• Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. -- Poor Richard
• An unjust peace is better than a just war.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero "Epistola ad Atticum" (106-43 BCE)...
• It is tempting to take the easy political path ... to get peace at any price now, even though I know that a peace of humiliation for the United States would lead to a bigger war or surrender later.
  -- Richard M. Nixon, April 30, 1970...
• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
  Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!...
• When you buy peace at any price it is always on the installment plan for another war.
  -- Richard M. Nixon, January 29, 1966...
• A bad peace is even worse than a war.