Massachusetts Lexington Quotes

The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the State instead of assembling armies will be worth as much to the world as the former examples we had given them

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Our Union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

Order is said to exist where the people of the country have, as a general rule, ceased to prosecute their quarrels by private force, and acquired the habit of referring the decision of their disputes and the redress of their injuries to the public authorities.

While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

Happy for us that when we find our constitutions defective and insufficient to secure the happiness of our people, we can assemble with all the coolness of philosophers and set it to rights, while every other nation on earth must have recourse to arms to amend or to restore their constitutions

The experience of ages demonstrates, that regularity of manners is essential to the tranquility and prosperity of societies.

Our common goal is to keep Hong Kong from chaos, severe polarisation, and violence.

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

I think the majority of the Liberian people want peace.

The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.

I don't have to come back politically, but I would like to do something that will help the people of Thailand. There must be a process under which I can come back. I want to come back to clear the chaos in Thailand, the civil war in Thailand.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

I never did begin the war with the two Houses of Parliament... They began war upon me... if anybody will look at the dates of what happened... they will see clearly that they began these unhappy troubles, not I... therefore I tell you I am the martyr of the people.

The soldier does not fire upon the soldier.

Soldiers quartered in a populous town will always occasion two mobs where they prevent one. They are wretched conservators of the peace.

We are fighting in our own house. It is useless to live on burned ruins.

American blood will run in the streets.

When civil fury first grew high And men fell out they knew not why.