"An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it."

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Source : Robert Morris Letter Book, Rosenbach Collection No. 33, 1943.

John Paul Jones

#War Quotes #Blood Quotes #Wish Quotes

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”

Source : "Ninety-Three". Book by Victor Hugo, Book VII, Chapter V, 1874.
“I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.”
“Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.”
“Playing 10 years in the NHL, almost 600 games, there's going to be some wear and tear for everybody.”
“In the end, the only thing between us was silence.”
“We don't have good global policies in place for climate.”
“Observe more, do less. Do less, enjoy more.”
“It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new spending, ... No one in America believes the federal government is operating at peak efficiency and can't tighten its belt.”

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