促使人们倾向于和平的激情是对死亡的恐惧,对舒适生活必需品的渴望,以及通过自己的努力获得这些的希望。
The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death, desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living, and a hope by their industry to obtain them.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.