--ABRAHAM
LINCOLN.
How dear is fatherland to all noble hearts!--VOLTAIRE.
Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our
country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a
vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of
wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with
admiration forever.--DANIEL WEBSTER.
PEACE.--Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the
children of God.--MATTHEW 5:9.
I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between
myself and God.--GEORGE ELIOT.
Five great enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy,
anger and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly
enjoy perpetual peace.--PETRARCH.
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to
meet the enemy.--WASHINGTON.
They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into
pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more.--ISAIAH 2:4.
I never advocated war except as a means of peace.--U.S. GRANT.
There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly
purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own
soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to
God.--CHAPIN.
Peace, above all things, is to be desired; but blood must sometimes be
spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
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