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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston - Fighting Quotes

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It would be very delightful if your Utopia could be realized and if the nations of the earth would think of nothing but peace and commerce, and would give up quarrelling and fighting altogether. But unfortunately man is a fighting and quarrelling animal; and that this is human nature is proved by the fact that republics, where the masses govern are far more quarrelsome, and more addicted to fighting, than monarchies, which are governed by comparatively few persons.

Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

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One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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Born: October 20, 1784
Died: October 18, 1865 (aged 80)
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