Brutal Quote by Thomas Carlyle

“With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!”

Thomas Carlyle

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