It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life.


Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army (ed. Gale Cengage Learning, 1864)

George Stillman Hillard Quotes

It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely...

It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely...

It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely...

It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely...