As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.
Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical... (ed. 1806)
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
