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Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.

It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.