A Certain Peace Is Better And Safer

...war Is Just To Those For Whom It Is Necessary, And Arms Are Clear Of Impiety For Those Who Have No Hope Left But In Arms.

That Sense – The Only True Patriotism – Comes Slowly And Springs From The Heart: It Is Founded Upon Respect For The Family And Love For The Soil. Premature ‘liberty’ Of This Kind Would Have Been A Disaster: We Should Have Been Torn To Pieces By Petty Squabbles Before We Had Ever Reached Political Maturity, Which, As Things Were, As Made Possible By The Long Quiet Years Under Monarchical Government; For It Was That Government Which, As It Were, Nursed Our Strength And Enabled Us Ultimately To Produce Sound Fruit From Liberty, As Only A Politically Adult Nation Can.

Haste Is Blind And Improvident.

Better Late Than Never.

Fame Opportunely Despised Often Comes Back Redoubled.