Anwar Sadat Quotes
We must achieve peace because it's the only way to build this nation
Mohamed Anwar El-Sedat. For a nation to be on a war footing diverts a huge proportion of its resources from development and raising the standard of living of the population. Nations like Costa Rica and Tunisia with not only peace but no army to maintain have been able to develop at much greater rates than their neighbors who supported military establishments.
Anwar Sadat, 1918-1981, President of Egypt, Nobel Peace Laureate, Quoted in Omara, Peacemaker Hero: Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
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Mohamed Anwar El-Sedat
The quotation was made in the context of the Arab Israeli conflict, but the principle is general.
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian politician who served as the third President of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as president in 1970. In 1978, Sadat and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, signed a peace treaty in cooperation with United States President Jimmy Carter, for which they were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize.
