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Quote by Gerrit Smith
It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the N

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. – Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary. – Gerrit Smith

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I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 oclock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill. – Gerrit Smith

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The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected. – Gerrit Smith

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The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him. – Gerrit Smith

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Let us not deceive ourselves we must elect world peace or world destruction. – Bernard Baruch

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I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world. – Dennis Kucinich

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But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus. – George Whitefield

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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. – David Herbert Lawrence

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