Henry Brooks Adams

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“Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“God lives! He forged the iron will
That clutched and held that trembling hill!”
—Will Henry Thompson (1848–1918)

“This morning men deliver wounds and death.
They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow.
And I doubt all. You. Or a violet.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.”
—Gerry Adams (b. 1948)