Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.