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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
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As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896) edited by Louis Klopsch, p. 209.

 

Andrew Jackson

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We know now that the basic proposition of the worth and dignity of man is not a sentimental aspiration or a vain hope or a piece of rhetoric. It is the strongest, most creative force now present in this world.
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