rememberance day

"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

I believe this statement to be a fundamental truth. I believe that material prosperity can only come to all by means of co-operation and peace. I believe it is also by these means that nations can build societies founded on the universal principals of justice, equality and brotherhood. From this solid platform civilization as we know it would be given the opportunity to advance at an unprecedented rate, one not measured by the strength of its war machines, but rather by the living standards of its citizens.

The question of the importance of world peace is large, and yet easily answered. Answered both by the importance which we place on the quality of our own lives, and by that which we place on the life of every other human being on this planet. So great are the benefits of a peaceful co-...