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
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In the quote above, the writer of the article is saying that people will be able to promote peace more effectively than governments. This is a very common view of how society should function, and it’s a popular one among many people in the world. The idea is that people should be able to make a better decision for themselves, and government should get out of the way. That’s why you see so many revolutions taking place all over the world. People are fed up with having their lives dictated by others, and they feel that they must take action on their own behalf.

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