Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.
Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.
Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.
