14 Victoriam malle quam pacem. To prefer victory to peace. TACITUS-Annales. Bk. III. 60. 15 There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory -except a great defeat. Quoted as WELLINGTON'S. EMERSON ascribes it to D'ARGENSON, as reported by GRIMM. See EMERSON Quotation and Originality. 16 It must be a peace without victory. Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser; a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last: only a peace, the very principle of which is equality, and a common participation in a common benefit. WOODROW WILSON-Address to the U. S. Senate, Jan. 22, 1917. Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, E. B. BROWNING A Flower in a Letter. 24 Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow. JULIA C. R. DORR-For a Silver Wedding. 25 Again the violet of our early days Poems. |
