“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
