 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 542 pages
...reasonable creatures, have jru'-nu and sense enough to settle their differences without cu.ttjn£ throats : for in my opinion, there never was a good war, or a. bad peate. What vast additions to the conveniences ajid comforts of living might mankind have acquired,... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - History - 1825 - 534 pages
...Treaty was signed the third instant. We are now friends with England, and with all mankind! May we never see another war! for in my opinion, there never was a good war, or a bad peace. Adieu, and believe me ever, My dear Friend, Yours most affectionately, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. THE END.... | |
 | William Lincoln, Christopher Columbus Baldwin - 1826 - 906 pages
...Treaty was signed the third instant. We are now friends with England, and with all mankind ! May we never see another war ! for in my opinion, there never was a good war, or a bad peace. Adieu, and believe me ever, My dear Friend, Yours most affectionately, B. FRANKLIN. COL. WILLIAM BUCKMIN9TER... | |
 | Worcester County (Mass.) - 1826 - 404 pages
...Treaty was signed the third instant. We are now friends with England, and with all mankind ! May we never see another war ! for in my opinion, there never was a good war, or a bad peace. Adieu, and believe me ever, My dear Friend, Yours most affectionately, B. FRANKLIX. BIOGRAPHICAL. ORIGINAL.... | |
 | William Ladd - Peace - 1831 - 890 pages
...his country and the world, in a letter to Josiah uu'mcy, dated Passy, Sept. 21, 1783, says : " May we never see another war ! for, in my opinion, there never was a good war, or a had peace." He gives the following picture of the degraded state of slavery to which, he conceived,... | |
 | William Cogswell - Christian life - 1833 - 368 pages
...signed at Paris, Dr. Franklin wrote a letter to Josiah Quincy of Braintree, in which he says, " May we never see another war; for in my opinion there never was a good war or a bad peace." * II. How shall wsrs be abolished, and peace be promoted. To accomplish this object, every lawful and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1833 - 490 pages
...reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to • settle their differences without cutting throats : for in my opinion, there never was a good war, or a bad peace. What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the... | |
 | Peace - 1834 - 600 pages
...Franklin, and Washington, and Jefferson, in our own country. " God grant," said Franklin, " that we may never see another war ; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace." " For the sake of humanity," said Washington, " it is devoutly to be wished, that the manly employment... | |
 | Robert Walsh - United States - 1837 - 504 pages
...the American revolution, one week after the treaty of peace was signed, he wrote thus — " May we never see another war, for, in my opinion, there never was a good war, nor a bad peace." The Lord Chancellor Brougham thus strongly expresses his abhorrence of war — "But... | |
 | William Cogswell - Charity - 1839 - 432 pages
...signed at Paris, Dr. Franklin wrote a letter to Josiah Cluiiioy of Braintree, in which he says, " May we never see another war ; for in my opinion there never was a good war or a bad peace." II. How shall wars be abolished, and peace be promoted 1 To accomplish this object, every lawful and... | |
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I hope it will be lasting, and that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats : for, in my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. 
