John Stevens Cabot Abbott Quotes

• War is science of destruction.

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott

  War, Destruction

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• He who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter its perils, from love of country and of home--who is willing to sacrifice himself and all that is dear to him in life, to promote the well-being of his fellow-man, will ever receive a worthy homage.

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott

  Country, War, Home

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• Las madres ejercen una influencia tan poderosa sobre el bienestar de las generaciones futuras como todas las demás causas terrenales juntas.

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott

  Mother, Powerful, Causes

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1833). “The mother at home: or, The principles of maternal duty familiarly illustrated”, p.159

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• If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

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  War, Eye, Tears

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1855). “The History of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.326

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• Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott

  Country, Book, Kentucky

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1873). “Christopher Carson: Familiarly Known as Kit Carson”, p.9

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