The whole book of history reveals mankind's never-ending quest for peace, and mankind's God-given capacity to build.

As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war - as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years - I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Freedom is not only the absence of being in jail, just as it is always said that peace is not merely the absence of war.

Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.