Quote of the Day for 2016-08-12

"It is easier to make war than make peace."

— Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) "Speech on Peace" in Verdun during the Paris Peace Conference (July 20, 1919) as quoted in Les Annales Politiques et Littéraires (July 21, 1919)

The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster, 15 May 1648 by Gerard ter Borch (1648) which was a large part of the Peace of Westphalia

Quote of the Day for 2016-05-25

"We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is an illusion."

— Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870-1938) The Growth of the Law (1924)

Surreptitious photograph of the Supreme Court in the Old Senate Chamber (1932) by Erich Salomon. On the bench, left to right: Willis Van Devanter, Pierce Butler, Louis Brandeis, James McReynolds, Charles Evans Hughes, George Sutherland, Owen Roberts, and Benjamin N. Cardozo. Not pictured: Harlan Fiske Stone

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-19

"Only the dead are safe; only the dead have seen the end of war."

— George Santayana (1863-1952) "Tipperary," Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies

Guernica by Pablo Picasso (1937)

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-11

"Peace hath her victories / No less renown'd than war."

— John Milton (1608-1674) "To the Lord General Cromwell"

Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, and Anwar Sadat at Camp David watching a Marine Corps parade (Sept. 7, 1978)