Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood…

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

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As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896) edited by Louis Klopsch, p. 209

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