Juanita Morrow Nelson quotes

  • We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.

  • We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

  • I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

  • Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

  • The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

  • You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

  • Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

  • Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

  • Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

  • Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.