Julia Ward Howe Quotations

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.

The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.

We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.