The speaker said that the peoples want peace

· if smth is represented as habitual, customary or characteristic.

He asked the guard what time the train usually starts.

The sequence of tenses does not concern attributive relative clauses & adverbial clauses of cause, result, comparison, & concession (if the verb is used in the Indicative Mood).

I didn’t go out of the shop door, but at the back door, which opens into a narrow alley.

He didn’t go to the cinema last night because he will have an exam tomorrow.

She worked so much yesterday that she is feeling quite weak today.

Last year he worked more than he does this year.

He insisted on going to the library yesterday, though he will not want the book today.

The sequence of tenses is generally observed in subject & predicative clauses.

What he would do was of no importance.

The sequence of tenses is observed in appositive attributive clauses:

She had a feeling that life would go on in this way.