John Stevens Cabot Abbott

“War is the science of destruction.”

“Popular prejudice is seldom removed by argument”

“Civil war burst upon the United States, with almost the suddenness of the meteor's glare. It was, however, but like the eruption of the volcano, whose pent-up fires had, for ages, been gathering strength for the final explosion. The whirlwind which our country has reaped, is but the natural harvest of that seed which, for long years, we have been sowing.”