Quote by Gerrit Smith
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the oc

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. – 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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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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Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace. – Daisaku Ikeda

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A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. – Sivananda

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The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order… between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace. – Arthur Henderson

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Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. – John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses

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