Excerpt from Orations and Speeches, Vol. 2 of 2
"I look upon the way of treaties, as a retiring from fighting like beasts, to arguing like men, whose strength should be more in their understandings than in their limbs." - Charles I. Elkon Basilike.
"We daily make great improvements in natural - there is one I wish to see in moral - philosophy ; the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without first cutting one another"s throats. When will human reason be sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this?" - Franklin.
"La meme politique qui lie, pour leur bonheur, toutes les familles d"une nation les unes avec les autres, doit lier entre elles toutes les nations, qui sont des familles du genrc humain. Tous les hommes se communiquent, meme sans s"en douter, leurs maux et leurs biens, d"un bout de la terre a l"autre." - Bernardin De St. Pierre.
"Only the toughest, harshest barbarism of past ages - War - remains yet to be vanquished by our innate anti-barbarism. There is a growing insight of its unlawfulness." - Jean Paul.
"War is on its last legs ; and a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of civilization over barbarism, of liberal governments over feudal forms. The question for us is only, How soon?" - Emerson.
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