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Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Letter to Major General Joseph Hooker (26 January 1863)
Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress (1862)
- Slavery
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865The Gettysburg Address (1863)
- History
With malice toward none, with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865)
- Charity
- Forgiveness
Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865)
- Hope
- Prayer
Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of such a place?
Charles Lindbergh1902–1974After visiting the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in Germany, as quoted in The New York Times (20 April 1980)
- Good & Evil
At eleven o’clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible War that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.
David Lloyd George1863–1945Speech in the House of Commons (11 November 1918)
The fight must be to a finish⁠—to a knock-out.
David Lloyd George1863–1945Interview with Roy Howard of the United Press of America (28 September 1916), quoted in The Times (29 September 1916), p. 7
All your strength is in your union,
All your danger is in discord;
Therefore be at peace henceforward,
And as brothers live together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Song of Hiawatha (1855), I. The Peace-PipeIn context
And in despair I bowed my head;
“There is no peace on earth,” I said;
“For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Christmas Bells (1865)In context
- Christmas
For the man who should loose me is dead,
Fighting with the Duke in Flanders,
In a pattern called a war.
Christ! What are patterns for?
Amy Lowell1874–1925Patterns (1915)In context
Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Speech to the Michigan legislature, in Lansing, Michigan (15 May 1952), published in General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964 (2000) by Edward T. Imparato, p. 206, much of this was used in speeches of 1951, as quoted in The Twenty-year Revolu
I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964On landing in Leyte, Philippines (20 October 1944)
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would gladly yield every honor which has been accorded me in war.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Macarthur and the American Century: A Reader (2001) edited by William M Leary
It was close; but that’s the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die — and the difference is just an eyelash.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964To Gen. Richard Sutherland after their flight over Japanese held territory to reach Australia (17 March 1942), as quoted in MacArthur and the War Against Japan (1944) by Frazier Hunt, p. 71