2 Quotes by James T. Shotwell

The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep and cattle, and spirits of caves and wells, of whom the Old Testament, tending towards its higher ideal, gives fragmentary but convincing evidence.

Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.