"Thanks that I can say I have never killed a bird. I would not crush the meanest insect which crawls upon the ground. …"

"We need not war to awaken human energy. There is at least equal scope for courage and magnanimity in blessing, as in …"

"The influence of war on the community at large, on its prosperity, its morals, and its political institutions, though…"

"One of the great springs of war may be found in a very strong and general propensity of human nature, in the love of …"

"A genuine, enlightened patriot discerns, that the welfare of his own country is involved in the general progress of s…"

"Government, the peace-officer at home, breathes war abroad, organizes it into a science, reduces it to a system, make…"

"Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is rig…"

"Undoubtedly some men are more gifted than others, and are marked out for more studious lives. But the work of such me…"

"War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration…"

"Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, fo…"