A Quote by King Baudouin I on destruction, peace, war, and youth

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Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I (1930 - 1993)

Source: address to US Congress, May 11, 1959

Contributed by: Zaady