The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

In the House, I was named one of the most bipartisan members of Congress, and that's a title I plan on continuing to hold in the Senate.

can understand how a kindly, patriotic man like Hayes would be charmed by the prospect. I was as anxious for such a policy as Mr. Hayes. There has never been a moment since Lee surrendered that I would not have gone more than halfway to meet the Southern people in a spirit of conciliation. But they have never responded to it. They have not forgotten the war.

A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.