 Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? The true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence, securing and advancing human happiness. In the clear eye of that Christian...  Charles Sumner - Page 34by Moorfield Storey - 1900 - 466 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1870 - 554 pages
...tribuni tribunis compares colleycrque, iisdem prcesidiis, scepe iisdem manipulis pennixti f teerant.3 Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? The true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence, securing and... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1870 - 556 pages
...tribuni tribunis compares collegccque, iisdem prcesidiis, scrpe iisdem manipulis pennwti fuerant.2 Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? The true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence, securing and... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 - 1871 - 360 pages
...tribuni tribunis compares collegceque, iisdem prcesidiis, scepe iisdem manipulis permixti fuerant? Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? The true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence, securing and... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Fourth of July orations - 1893 - 144 pages
...tribuni tribunis compares collegceque, iisdem prcesidiis, scepe iisdem manipulis permixti fuerant? Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? The true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence, securing and... | |
 | Arbitration (International law) - 1896 - 162 pages
...earlier years. In 1869, when printing his speeches in a permanent and revised form, he inquired only "Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? " — thus putting interrogatively only what he had once declared affirmatively. Such changes as... | |
 | Moorfield Storey - Legislators - 1900 - 492 pages
...threshold of his public life. i w- -J f .. f . t I ' CHAPTER IV ENTRANCE INTO PUBLIC LIFE SUMNER'S opportunity came when he was invited to deliver the...to be clear, he spoke to an audience as he thought ,to_, himself, without reserve or regard for the feelings of others. He stated the truth as he saw... | |
 | Education - 1898
...they may be applied to works of justice and beneficence, which is better than war or «mpire. . . . Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable? The true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence, securing and advancing... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - Statesmen - 1900 - 282 pages
...they may be applied to works of justice and beneficence, which is better than war or empire. . . . Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? The true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence, securing and... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - Orators - 1901 - 372 pages
...tribuni tribunis compares collegasque, iisdem prassidiis, saspe iisdem manipilis permixti fuerant." Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? The true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence, securing and... | |
 | George Henry Haynes - 1909 - 484 pages
...to brute force. With tremendous 1 In his Works, Sumner softened this by putting it in the form of a question. "Can there be, in our age, any peace that...not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?" Vol. I, p. 9. power l1e emphasized the enormous waste involved in military preparations and manoeuvres,... | |
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