“Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.”

1994 Nobel Peace Prize lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1994/rabin-lecture.html (10 December 1994)

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