“The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 139
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.”
“Enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.”
“Unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.”
“We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.”
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
“Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments.”
“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
“It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.”
“Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.”
“Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.”
“It were better to be of no Church, than to be bitter for any.”
“A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.”
“If I am even with my Enemy, the Debt is paid; but if I forgive it, I oblige him for ever.”
“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”