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Ronald Reagan: “Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.”

On the recordMay 8, 1982
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Address at Commencement Exercises at Eureka College in Illinois

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