Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.