SOME THOUGHTS FOR PEACE DAY FROM PERSONS OF RENOWN
Some Thoughts For Peace Day From Persons of Renown PEACE hath her victories, no less renowned than war.—Milton. ENLIGHTENED public opinion is stronger than armies.—Lord Palmerston. TO THOSE of a...
...It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.—George Washington...
...WAR, is a most detestable thing...
...The sword is beaten into the plowshare, the spear into the pruning hook...
...THERE is nothing good or glorious which war has brought forth in human nature which peace may not produce more richly and more permanently...
...WAR is the most futile and ferocious of human follies.—John Hay...
...in these, in the perception of their glory, in the obedience to their compulsion, shall be the possibility and promise of the soldier statesman, the soldier scientist, the soldier philanthropist, the soldier * * * priest, the soldier man...
...PEACE is the expression of that love which is the fulfilling of the law.—Pope Innocent III...
...OBSERVE good faith and justice toward all nations...
...the higher fight, the light after the eternal facts and their obedience, the light against the perpetually intrusive lie, which is the richer glory of the riper man...
...WE HEAR much of the necessity of an elaborate system of fortification to protect our seaports from assault...
...TO THOSE of a noble disposition the whole world is but one family.—From the Hindu...
...War is hell—General Sherman...
...it is that the battle has gone up onto higher ground and into higher light...
...and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it...
...I am confident that our strongest, most effective, most trustworthy, and infinitely the cheapest coast defense will consist in Fort Justice, Fort Good Sense, Fort Self-respect, Fort Good Will, and, if international differences really do arise, Fort Arbitration.—Carl Schurz...
...It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation...
...Religion and morality enjoin this conduct...
...THE RAGE and violence of public war, what is it but a suspension of justice among the warring parties.—Hume...
...I AM TIRED and sick of war...
...Then the first, military spirit and its works shall seem to be but crude struggles after, and rehearsals for...
...However, therefore, we may have been reproached for pursuing our Quaker system, time will affix the stamp of wisdom on it, and the happiness and prosperity of our citizens will attest its merit...
...but one, on the contrary, which has a friend in the bottom of the heart of every man, even of the violent and the base...
...The facts of government, the facts of commerce, the facts of society, the facts of history, the facts of man, the facts of God...
...Its glory is all moonshine...
...When we cease to think of peace as the negative of war, and think of war as the negative of peace, making war and not peace the exception and interruption of human life, making peace and not war the type and glory of existence, then shall shine forth the higher soldiership of the higher battles...
...WHENEVER wo see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will not be one that invites injury...
...one against which no weapon can prosper...
...JUSTICE is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens...
...The battle is above the clouds.—Phillips Brooks...
...I believe, is the only legitimate object of government, and the first duty of governors, and not the slaughter of men and devastation of the countries placed under their care, in pursuit of a fantastic honor, unallied to virtue or happiness.—Thomas Jefferson...
...Cultivate peace and harmony with all...
...one which is looked upon as the asylum of the human race and has the blessings of mankind.—Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...But it is not that the power of tight has perished...
...And this...
...The war drum throbs no longer, and the battle flags are furled...
...PEACE has been our principle, peace is our interest, and peace has saved to the world this only plant of free and rational government now existing in it...
...A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single, and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.—Benjamin Franklin...
...If you had seen but one day of war, you would pray God you might, never see another.—Wellington...
Vol. 5 • May 1913 • No. 19
