It was clear that what we really need is a peace to end all wars.
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Peace
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It is an indication of progress that has been made and continues to be made toward the goal that we all seek: the control of instruments of mass destruction, so that we can reduce the danger of war.
We must increase our spending for defense in order to carry out the Nation's strategy for peace.
There needs to be something more than the mere absence of war in life.
I will not be satisfied until I do not have to write any letter at all to the next of kin of somebody killed in Vietnam.
But we are on the way out and we are on the way out in a way that will bring a just peace.
I firmly believe that, in this Christmas season, we can look forward with greater confidence than at any time since World War II to the prospect that our children can have, at last, what we all devoutly hope for: a generation of peace.
This Christmas we can be thankful that we are making progress toward peace.
Our two countries have interests in the world, interests in progress and peace and justice, all of those very simple words but which have such great meaning, which are similar and common and that we work together to achieve those interests.
The peace and friendship between our two nations would be perpetual.
We find that in the spirit of Christmas, in the spirit of peace, we can put aside what divides us and rediscover what really unites us--the concern for one another, the love of liberty and justice, the knowledge that we are a great Nation…
You have understood, and have brought others to understand, the full dimensions of the contribution which the United Nations can make and must make to a world of peace and justice.
I am sorry that this is so, but until men and nations are content to leave one another in peace it will be so.
Do we believe that these things can come about peacefully?
The fires of religious hatred have been dampened.
We want, more than anything else, peace in the world and prosperity for all of its peoples.
We are only now beginning to truly realize the impact which the physical sciences hold for the work of peace in the world.
The country will need the help of scientists, including a large and strong contingent of physicists, if we are ever to be able to deal effectively with the central problems of the present and the future, to deal with the problems of peace…