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Walt Whitman1819–1892

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

Walt Whitman on war and peace

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Drum-Taps. Reconciliation

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In the faces of men and women I see God.
Song of Myself (1855), Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Song of Myself, 48In context
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To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787). Manuscript at the Library of Congress.
- Liberty
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969The Chance for Peace (1953)
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton1885–1945

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