In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.
Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.
There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.
