William Wordsworth Quotes on War
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Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.
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And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.
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Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
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For by superior energies; more strict Affiance in each other; faith more firm In their unhallowed principles; the bad Have fairly earned a victory o'er the weak, The vacillating, inconsistent good.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.