“Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Address to the United Nations (28 August 1954); as quoted in The Macmillan Dictionary of Political Quotations (1993) by Lewis D. Eigen and Jonathan Paul Siegel, p. 698

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Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister … 1889–1964

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