Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by John Stevens Cabot Abbott

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott, an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.

American - Historian | September 19, 1805 - June 17, 1877

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If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott

War is science of destruction.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott

Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott

Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott

He who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter its perils, from love of country and of home--who is willing to sacrifice himself and all that is dear to him in life, to promote the well-being of his fellow-man, will ever receive a worthy homage.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by John Stevens Cabot Abbott

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