The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

mutuelles...le réglement ou la solution de tous les diffèrends ou conflits—de quelque nature ou de
quelque origine qu’ils puissent être—qui pourront surgir entre elles ne devra jamais être cherchè
que par des moyens pacifiques.
The high contracting powers solemnly declare...that they condemn recourse to war and
renounce it...as an instrument of their national policy towards each other....The settlement or the
solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be which
may arise...shall never be sought by either side except by pacific means.
Draft, 20 June 1927, which became part of the Kellogg Pact, 1928, in ‘Le Temps’ 13 April 1928
2.194 Robert Bridges 1844-1930
When men were all asleep the snow came flying,
In large white flakes falling on the city brown,
Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying,
Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.
‘London Snow’ (1890)
All night it fell, and when full inches seven
It lay in the depth of its uncompacted lightness,
The clouds blew off from a high and frosty heaven;
And all woke earlier for the unaccustomed brightness
Of the winter dawning, the strange unheavenly glare.
‘London Snow’ (1890)
So sweet love seemed that April morn,
When first we kissed beside the thorn,
So strangely sweet, it was not strange
We thought that love could never change.
But I can tell—let truth be told—
That love will change in growing old;
Though day by day is nought to see,
So delicate his motions be.
‘So sweet love seemed’ (1894)
2.195 John Bright 1811-89
The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of
his wings.
Referring to the effects of the war in the Crimea, in ‘Hansard’, 23 February 1855, col. 1761
I am for ‘Peace, retrenchment, and reform’, the watchword of the great Liberal party 30 years
ago.
Speech at Birmingham, 28 April 1859, in ‘The Times’ 29 April 1859
My opinion is that the Northern States will manage somehow to muddle through.
Said during the American Civil War, in Justin McCarthy ‘Reminiscences’ (1899) vol. 1, ch. 5