Carolina QuotesPeace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Andrew Jackson Carolinian
Source
As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896) edited by Louis Klopsch, p. 209.
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- 1896
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- p. 209
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“Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must so…” Andrew Jackson. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-B79EAB7A25. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/b79eab7a25
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