QUOTES
As
the War-Office of the United States was established in the time of peace, it is
equally reasonable that a Peace-Office should be established in the time of war.
In order
more deeply to affect the minds of the citizens of the United States with the
blessings of peace, by contrasting them with the evils of war, let the following
inscriptions be painted upon the sign which is placed over the door of the War
Office: 1. An office for butchering the human species. 2. A Widow and Orphan making
office. 3. A broken bone making office. 4. A Wooden leg making office. 5. An office
for the creating of public and private vices. 6. An office for creating a public
debt. 7. An office for creating speculators, stock Jobbers, and Bankrupts. 8.
An office for creating famine. 9. An office for creating pestilential diseases.
10. An office for creating poverty, and the destruction of liberty, and national
happiness.
Mirth,
and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot
water to a frozen limb
Controversy
is only dreaded by the advocates of error
Liberty
without virtue would be no blessing to us
Freedom
can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable
of knowing their rights, and where learning is confined to a few people, liberty
can be neither equal nor universal.
