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PEACE
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe,
For freedom only deals the deadly blow;
Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade,
For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade.
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign;
And after dreams of horror, comes again
The welcome morning with its rays of peace.
Bryant—Mutation. L. 4.
The trenchant blade Toledo trusty,
For want of fighting was grown rusty,
And ate into itself for lack
Of somebody to hew and hack.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 359.
Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease,
He makes a solitude and calls it—peace!
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| work = Bride of Abydos. Canto II. St. 20.
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| text = Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place!
Byron—Childe Harold. Canto IV. L. 177.
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| text = <poem>Cedant arma toga?.
War leads to peace.
Cicero—De Officiis. I. 22.
Mihi enim omnis pax cum civibus bello civili
utilior videbatur.
For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil
war.
Cicero—Philippics. 2. 15. 37.
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| text = Iniquissimam pacem justissimo bello antefero.
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most
righteous war.
Adapted from Cicero. Same idea used by
Butler in the Rump Parliament. See also
Cicero—Epistola ad Atticum. 7. 14. Also
said by Franklin—Letter to Quincev. Sept.
11, 1773. Bishop Colet, St. Paul's, London, 1512. See Green's History of the English People. The New Learning.
Mars gravior sub pace latet.
A severe war lurks uncjp r the show of peace.
Claudianus—De Sexto Consulatu Honorii A ugusti Panegyris. 307.
Nee sidera pacem
Semper habent.
Nor is heaven always at peace.
Claudianus—De Bello Getico. LXII.
The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have
forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the
floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."
Henry Clay—Speech. On the New Army Bill
(1813)
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| text = <poem>Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
Collins—Eclogue II. Hassan. L. 68.
O for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade;
Where rumor of oppression and deceit,
Of unsuccessful or successful war,
Might never reach me more.
Though peace be made, yet it's interest that
keeps peace.
Quoted by Oliver Cromwell, in Parliament,
Sept. 4, 1654, as "a maxim not to be despised."
Such subtle covenants shall be made,
Till peace itself is war in masquerade.
Dryden—Absalom and Achitopel. Pt. I. L.
752; Pt. II. L. 268.
At home the hateful names of parties cease,
And factious souls are wearied into peace.
Dryden—Astrcea Redux. L. 312.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of.
principles.
Emerson—Essays. Of Self-Reliance.
Breathe soft, ye winds! ve waves, in silence sleep!
Gay—To a Lady. Ep. I. L. 17.
Pax vobiscum.
Peace be with you.
Vulgate. Genesis. XLJII. 23.
Let us have peace.
U. S. Grant. Accepting the Presidential
nomination. May 20, 1868.
I accept your nomination in the confident trust
that the masses of our countrymen, North and
South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody
chasm which has so long divided them.
Horace Greeley. Accepting the Liberal
Republican nomination for President. May
, 1872.
But—a stirring thrills the air
Like to sounds of joyance there, .
That the rages
Of the ages
Shall be cancelled, and deliverance offered from
the darts that were,
Consciousness the Will informing, till it fashion
all things fair.
Thomas Hardy—Dynasts. Sermchorus I of the Years.
So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days,
And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. XI. L. 164
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| num = | text = <poem>In pace ut sapiens aptarit idonea bello.
Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war. Horace:—Satires. II. 2. 111.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Vegetius)
