

“The history of nature . . . begins with good, for it is God's work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man's work.”
― Perpetual Peace and Other Essays
― Perpetual Peace and Other Essays

“I express the principle of one's freedom as a human being in this formula: No one can compel me (in accordance with his beliefs about the welfare of others) to be happy after his fashion.”
― Perpetual Peace and Other Essays
― Perpetual Peace and Other Essays

“The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know.”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk

“A league of a special sort must . . . be established, one that we can call a league of peace, which will be distinguished from a treaty of peace because the latter seeks merely to stop one war, while the former seeks to end all wars forever.”
― Perpetual Peace and Other Essays
― Perpetual Peace and Other Essays

“The greatest evil that can oppress civilized peoples derives from wars, not, indeed, so much from actual present or past wars, as from the never-ending and constantly increasing arming for future war.”
― Perpetual Peace and Other Essays
― Perpetual Peace and Other Essays

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