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“Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.”

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Stephen Vincent Benet was an American poet, novelist, and playwright. Known for his rich imagination and profound emotional depth, his works include notable poems and novels such as 'John Brown's Body' and 'America'. more

“It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need.”

Source: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: Early psycho-analytic publications

“He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.”

Years Children Eye Three Three Years

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.”

Hope Loss Gains Ill Dishonesty

Author:Democritus

“Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.”

Men May Children Reason Wish Natural Compassion Seeing Creatures Improvement Pity Sensations Savages Distress Uneasy Cultivation

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Abortion sheds that innocent blood. Now, as a servant of the Lord, I dutifully warn those who advocate and practice abortion that they incur the wrath of Almighty God, who declared, "If men... hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her . . . he shall be surely punished."”

Ifs Men Children Hurt Lord Practice Blood Fruit Punishment Innocent Servant Abortion Shed Almighty Wrath Almighty God

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.”

Children Flower Standing Relief Delicate Standing Out Petals Eyelids

Author:Auguste Rodin

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