This morning freedom was attacked by a faceless coward make no mistake the United States will hunt down

n and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts we will smoke them out of their holes ~ George Bush | Elevated Terror Alert ~ Fox News | Who attacked our country? The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as al Qaeda | We stand together to win the war on terrorism ~Dick Cheney | Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution. Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done ~ George Bush | This crusade, this war on terrorism is gonna take awhile and the American people must be patient ~George Bush | The Patriot Act has increased the flow of information within our government and it has helped break up terrorist cells in the United States of America ~ George Bush | A nation at war (orange alert) ~ Fox News | America has suffered her first casualty ~Dan Rather | We remain on the offensive in Afghanistan, where a fine president and a national assembly are fighting the terror of the Taliban while building the institutions of a new democracy ~ George Bush| Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make: either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists ~ George Bush | Iraq, Iran, North Korea and Syria: states like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger ~ George Bush | Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror ~ Colin Powell | The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade ~ George Bush | This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizensleaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children ~ Colin Powell | [Saddam has] amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of biological weapons, including Anthrax, botulism, toxins and possibly smallpox VX, Sarin and mustard gas ~ Donald Rumsfeld | This is a regime that agreed to international inspections then kicked out the inspectors. This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world ~ Colin Powell | If we know Saddam Hussein has dangerous weapons todayand we dodoes it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him ~ George Bush | Elevated Terror Alert ~ Fox News | Iraqs behavior shows that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction ~ Colin Powell | Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us ~ Dick Cheney | Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls his nuclear mujahideenhis nuclear holy warriors ~ George Bush | Numerous human sources tell us that the Iraqis are moving, not just documents and hard drives, but weapons of mass destruction to keep them from being found by inspectors ~ Colin Powell | We believe Saddam has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons ~ Dick Cheney | We do know that [Saddam] is actively pursuing a nuclear weapon ~ Condoleezza Rice | The smoking gun could come in the form of a mushroom cloud ~ George Bush | We know where the [WMD] are ~ Donald Rumsfeld | Iraq has at least seven mobile factories for the production of biological agentsequipment mounted on trucks and rails to evade discovery ~ George Bush | Elevated Terror Alert ~Fox News | Im absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. Were just getting it now ~ Colin Powell | Evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. Iraq could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year ~ George Bush | [Saddam] is actively pursuing nuclear weapons at this time ~ Dick Cheney | These are not assertions, these are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries ~ Colin Powell | Its a slam dunk case ~ George Tenet | The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons. And according to the British government, the Iraqi regime could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 minutes ~ George Bush | Saddam Hussein could have produced 25,000 liters of anthrax the Iraqis have never accounted for all of the biological weapons they admitted they had and we know they had. They have never accounted for all the organic material used to make them. They have not accounted for many of the weapons filled with these agents such as there are 400 bombs. This is evidence, not conjecture; this is true; this is all well-documented ~ Colin Powell | This is an immanent threat ~ George Bush | We have firsthand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails. Ladies and gentleman, these are sophisticated facilities. They can produce anthrax and botulinum toxin. They can produce enough dry biological agent in a single month to kill thousands upon thousands of people ~ Colin Powell | Saddam Hussein has investigated dozens of biological agents causing diseases such as gas gangrene, plague, typhus, tetanus, cholera, camelpox and hemorrhagic fever, and he also has the wherewithal to develop smallpox ~ Donald Rumsfeld | There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more. And he has the ability to dispense these lethal poisons and diseases in ways that can cause massive death and destruction ~ Colin Powell | Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agentthat is enough agent to fill 16,000 battlefield rockets ~ Donald Rumsfeld | Saddam Husseins humanityinhumanity has no limits ~ Colin Powell | Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plansthis time armed by Saddam Hussein ~ George Bush | We also have sources who tell us that, since the 1980s, Saddams regime has been experimenting on human beings to perfect its biological or chemical weapons. Saddam Hussein had initiated a crash program to build a crude nuclear weapon in violation of Iraqs U.N. obligations ~ Colin Powell | Saddam Hussein is determined to get his hands on a nuclear bomb. He is so determined that he has made repeated covert attempts to acquire high-specification aluminum tubes from 11 different countries, even after inspections resumed most U.S. experts think they are intended to serve as rotors in centrifuges used to enrich uranium ~ Condoleeza Rice | The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa ~ George Bush | Saddam Husseins intentions have never changed. He is not developing the missiles for self-defense, these are missiles that Iraq wants in order to project power, to threaten, and to deliver chemical, biological and, if we let him, nuclear warheads ~ Colin Powell | We also have intelligence from multiple sources that Iraq is attempting to acquire magnets and high-speed balancing machines; both items can be used in a gas centrifuge program to enrich uranium ~ Donald Rumsfeld | But what I want to bring to your attention today is the potentially much more sinister nexus between Iraq and the Al Qaeda terrorist network, a nexus that combines classic terrorist organizations and modern methods of murder ~ Colin Powell| You cant distinguish between al-Qaeda and Saddam ~ George Bush | Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, an associated in collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda lieutenants ~ Colin Powell | Theres overwhelming evidence there was a connection between al Qaeda and the Iraqi government. I am very confident that there was an established relationship there ~ Dick Cheney | Last year, two suspected Al Qaeda operatives were arrested crossing from Iraq into Saudi Arabia. They were linked to associates of the Baghdad cell, and one of them received training in Afghanistan on how to use cyanide ~ George Bush | Going back to the early and mid-1990s, an Al Qaeda source tells us that Saddam and bin Laden reached an understanding that Al Qaeda would no longer support activities against Baghdad. Early Al Qaeda ties were forged by secret, high-level intelligence service contacts with Al Qaeda, secret Iraqi intelligence high-level contacts with Al Qaeda. A detained Al Qaeda member tells us that Saddam was more willing to assist Al Qaeda after the 1998 bombings of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Saddam was also impressed by Al Qaedas attacks on the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000. Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and Al Qaeda together, enough so Al Qaeda could learn how to build more sophisticated bombs and learn how to forge documents, and enough so that Al Qaeda could turn to Iraq for help in acquiring expertise on weapons of mass destruction ~ Colin Powell | Theres no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties ~ George Bush | Bin Laden did not believe that Al Qaeda labs in Afghanistan were capable enough to manufacture these chemical or biological agents. They needed to go somewhere else. They had to look outside of Afghanistan for help. Where did they go? Where did they look? They went to Iraq ~ Colin Powell | Saddam was a supporter of terrorism long before these terrorist networks had a name. And this support continues. The nexus of poisons and terror is new. The nexus of Iraq and terror is old. The combination is lethal ~ Colin Powel | You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror | Given Saddam Husseins history of aggression, given what we know of his grandiose plans, given what we know of his terrorist associations and given his determination to exact revenge on those who oppose him, should we take the risk that he will not some day use these weapons at a time and the place and in the manner of his choosing at a time when the world is in a much weaker position to respond? ~ Colin Powell | The United States will not and cannot run that risk to the American people. Leaving Saddam Hussein in possession of weapons of mass destruction for a few more months or years is not an option, not in a post-September 11th world ~ George Bush| It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatize it ~ Hans Blix| Tonight I have a message for the brave and oppressed people of Iraq: Your enemy is not surrounding your countryyour enemy is ruling your country. If war is forced upon us, we will fight with the full force and might of the United States militaryand we will prevail. Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not Americas gift to the world, it is Gods gift to humanity ~ George Bush | The war could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months ~ Donald Rumsfeld | We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators I think it will go relatively quickly... (in) weeks rather than months ~ Dick Cheney | A siege has been launched in Iraq ~ Fox News | Shock and awe ~ Donald Rumsfeld | Elevated Terror Alert ~ Fox News | Mission accomplished ~ George Bush | God bless America | Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country ~ George Bush | In this battle, we have fought for the cause of liberty, and for the peace of the world. We have removed an ally of Al Qaeda. When Iraqi civilians looked into the faces of our servicemen and women, they saw strength, and kindness, and good will ~ George Bush | In the images of celebrating Iraqis, we have also seen the ageless appeal of human freedom. Decades of lies and intimidation could not make the Iraqi people love their oppressors or desire their own enslavement ~ George Bush | The global war on terror has been launched ~ Fox News | The Battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11th, 2001, and still goes on. The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. The use of force has been, and remains, our last resort ~ George Bush | There have been increasing incidences of sectarian violence ~ George Bush | 1,000 American troops dead | There was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda ~ Dick Cheney | Our government has taken unprecedented measures to defend the homeland and we will continue to hunt down the enemy before he can strike ~ George Bush | Spreading liberty for the sake of peace is the cause of all mankind. This approach not only reduces a danger to free peoples; it honors the dignity of all peoples, by placing human rights and human freedom at the center of our agenda ~ George Bush | Terrorists like bin Laden are serious about mass murder and all of us must take their declared intentions seriously. Their aim is to seize power in Iraq and use it as a safe haven to launch attacks against America and the world. Lacking the military strength to challenge us directly, the terrorists have chosen the weapon of fear ~ George Bush | The oil revenues of Iraq could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years. Were dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon ~ Paul Wolfowitz | I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and havent had now for over three years ~ Dick Cheney | Raging insurgency grips Iraq ~ USA Today | Saddam Hussein now sits in a prison cell, and Iraqi men and women are no longer carried to torture chambers and rape rooms ~ George Bush | A Disaster at Abu Ghraib ~ The New York Times | The U.S. commander in charge of military jails in Iraq, Major General Geoffrey Miller, has confirmed that a battery of 50-odd special coercive techniques can be used against enemy detainees. The general, who previously ran the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, said his main role was to extract as much intelligence as possible ~ The Guardian | Any activity we conduct, is within the law. We do not torture ~ George Bush | 2,000 American troops dead ~ Fox News | The United States will not retreat from the world, and we will never surrender to evil ~ George Bush | We remain on the offensive against terror networks. We have killed or captured many of their leaders. And, for the others, their day will come ~ Donald Rumsfeld | Were on the offensive in Iraq, with a clear plan for victory We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists I think there has been fairly significant success in terms of putting Iraq back together again and certainly wouldnt lead me to suggest or think that the strategy is flawed or needs to be changed ~ Dick Cheney | Gitmo is not a problem ~ Condoleeza Rice | There are known knowns and known unknowns ~ Donald Rumsfeld | Ultimately, the only way to defeat the terrorists is to defeat their dark vision of hatred and fear ~ George Bush | The Iranian government is defying the world with its nuclear ambitions, and the nations of the world must not permit the Iranian regime to gain nuclear weapons ~ George Bush | Islamofascism ~ George Bush | Our country must also remain on the offensive against terrorism here at home. The enemy has not lost the desire or capability to attack us ~ George Bush | The civil war in Iraq ~ Brian Williams | Terror Alert Elevated ~ Fox News | Some say that America caused the current instability in the Middle East by pursuing a forward strategy of freedom, yet history shows otherwise ~ George Bush | Much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong. And as your President, I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq. Yet it was right to remove Saddam Hussein from power ~ George Bush | I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon ~ Hans Blix| We settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason ~ Paul Wolfowitz | God would tell me, George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq ~ George Bush | If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence ~ Paul Bremer | We must stay the course in Iraq, because the end result is in our nations interest. We will not cut and run ~ George Bush | 3,000 American troops dead ~ Fox News | Its bad in Iraq. Does that help? ~ George Bush | 100,000 Iraqis dead ~ The Lancet | We remain a nation at war ~ George Bush | Bush lets US spy on American callers without courts ~ The New York Times | This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all ~ Colin Powell | This is the great ideological struggle of the 21st century its gonna be a long, hard slog ~ George Bush

In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path ~ Martin Luther King, Jr | Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also ~ The Bible, Matthew 5:39 | He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers ~ The Holy Koran | Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime ~ Ernest Hemingway | We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom ~ Dwight Eisenhower | I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi | Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings! Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction! ~ Helen Keller | Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done ~ Mark Twain | The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of Gods creatures. Belief in God is to love ones fellow men ~ Abdul Ghaffar Khan | And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more ~ Isaiah 2:4 | Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures ~ John F. Kennedy | At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. | Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say Im a dreamer, but Im not the only one. I hope someday youll join us, and the world will be as one ~ John Lennon | The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend ~ Abraham Lincoln | The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong ~ Mahatma Gandhi | All we are saying is give peace a chance ~ John Lennon | Five enemies of peace inhabit with usavarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace ~ Petrarch | It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace ~ Andre Gide | Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world ~ The Buddha | Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all ~ George Washington | No battle is ever won they are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools ~ William Faulkner | There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace ~ Woodrow Wilson | If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another ~ Winston Churchill | One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one ~ Agatha Christie | Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts ~ Ovid | There never was a good war or a bad peace ~ Ben Franklin | Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism ~ Dorothy Thompson | Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people ~ Jawaharlal Nehru | Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day ~ Thomas Jefferson | The more individuals capable of watching the world theater calmly and critically, the less danger of monumental mass stupidities first of all, wars ~ Hermann Hesse | The loud little handful will shout for war. The pulpit will warily and cautiously protest at first The great mass of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes, and will try to make out why there should be a war, and they will say earnestly and indignantly: It is unjust and dishonorable and there is no need for war. Then the few will shout even louder Before long you will see a curious thing: anti-war speakers will be stoned from the platform, and free speech will be strangled by hordes of furious men who still agree with the speakers but dare not admit it ... Next, statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception ~ Mark Twain | Naturally the common people dont want war but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger ~ Hermann Goering | Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us ~ The Dalai Lama | And in despair I bowd my head: There is no peace on earth, I said, for hate is strong, and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will to men ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson | Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice ~ Spinoza | More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt | We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at ones country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others ... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognizes justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with ... the other nations of the world. The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbors ~ Lord Baden-Powell | I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower | How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy ~ Nietzsche | Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not. The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings ~ Mahatma Gandhi | Generally speaking, the first nonviolent act is not fasting, but dialogue. The other side, the adversary, is recognized as a person, he is taken out of his anonymity and exists in his own right, for what he really is, a person. To engage someone in dialogue is to recognize him, have faith in him. At every step in the nonviolent struggle, at every level we try tirelessly to establish a dialogue, or reestablish it if it has broken down. When I say the other side, that could be a group of persons or a government ~ Hildegard Goos-Mayr | It isnt enough to talk about peace, one must believe it. And it isnt enough to believe in it, one must work for it ~ Eleanor Roosevelt | If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world ~ Chinese Proverb | Peace, like charity, begins at home ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt | We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hatethereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising ~ Maya Angelou | He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder ~ Albert Einstein | Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron ~ Dwight Eisenhower | The opposite of war is not peace; its creation ~ Unknown | Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it ~ Thomas Jefferson | If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children ~ Mohandas Gandhi | Without inner peace, it is impossible to have world peace ~ Dalai Lama | Peace is not something you wish for; its something you make, something you do, something you are, something you give away ~ Robert Fulghum | Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world ~ Robert Kennedy | Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson | Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War ~ John Milton | Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed ~ UNESCO Constitution | I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love ~ Mahatma Gandhi | Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten ~ Buddha | The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse ~ Confucius | With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really as innocent as we felt when we were first hurt. And we do not usually have a gigantic monster to forgive; we have a weak, needy, and somewhat stupid human being. When you see your enemy and yourself in the weakness and silliness of the humanity you share, you will make the miracle of forgiving a little easier ~ Lewis B. Smedes | I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain ~ James Baldwin | Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins ~ Proverbs, 10:12 | One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling ~ William James | To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness ~ Robert Muller | Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom ~ Hannah Arendt | Without forgiveness life is governed by ... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation ~ Roberto Assagioli | Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. | Sweet mercy is nobilitys true badge ~ William Shakespeare | Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isnt anyone who doesnt appreciate kindness and compassion ~ Dalai Lama | Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion ~ Dalai Lama | Compassion is the basis of morality ~ Arnold Shopenhauer | Always forgive your enemies ... nothing annoys them so much ~ Oscar Wilde | The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness ~ William Blake | Forgiveness is a rebirth of hope, a reorganization of thought, and a reconstruction of dreams. Once forgiving begins, dreams can be rebuilt. When forgiving is complete, meaning has been extracted from the worst of experiences and used to create a new set of moral rules and a new interpretation of lifes events ~ Beverly Flanigan | Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to anothers control ... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone elses nightmare ~ Lance Morrow | Forgiveness is giving love when there is no reason to ~ Unknown | It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne | I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war ~ Cicero | Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace ~ Leo Tolstoy | Without forgiveness, theres no future ~ Desmond Tutu | I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past ~ Gerald Ford | Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom ~ Hannah Arendt | What power has love but forgiveness ~ William Carlos Williams | Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do ~ Luke 23 | For tis sweet to stammer one letter of the Eternals language;on earth it is called Forgiveness! ~ Longfellow | Forgo your anger for a moment and save yourself a hundred days of trouble ~ Chinese proverb | Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves ~ Thich Nhat Hanh | Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future ~ Desmond Tutu | If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you ~ Matthew.6:14 | There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness ~ Josh Billings | What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau | A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity ~ The Buddha | I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart ~ Anne Frank | Peace be with you ~ The Bible: Genesis XLIII. 23