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Peace without Justice is a low estate,— A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,— We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

Henry Van Dyke

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Henry Van Dyke
Age: 80 †
Born: 1852
Born: November 10
Died: 1933
Died: April 10
Diplomat
Poet
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
Peace
Iron
War
Ideal
Without
Price
Real
Lows
Great
Ideals
Cringing
Make
Fate
Estate
Pay
Estates
Justice
Coward

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