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GRANT. Accepting nomination, May 20, 1868.

I'll fight at sea.

Antony and Cleopatra. iii, 7.

Fear has many eyes.

CERVANTES, Don Quixote. Pt. III, ch. 6.

How goes the enemy?

REYNOLDS, The Dramatist.

As certain as a gun.

BUTLER, Hudibras. Pt. I.

All hell broke loose.

MILTON, Paradise Lost. Bk. IV, 1. 918.

Thus am I doubly armed.

ADDISON, Cato. v, I.

I'll not budge an inch.

Rashness is not valour.

The Empire means peace.

LOUIS NAPOLEON, Speech at Bordeaux. 1852.

Taming of the Shrew.

ANON.

I war not with the dead.

HOMER, Iliad.

Bk. VII, 1. 485, Pope's trans.

The churchyard's peace.

The brazen throat of war.

SCHILLER, Don Carlos. iii, 10, 220.

MILTON, Paradise Lost. Bk. XI, 1. 713.

Far off his coming shone.

MILTON, Paradise Lost. Bk. VI, 1. 768.

Men hate where they hurt.

ANON.

Gashed with honourable scars.

MONTGOMERY, Battle of Alexandria.

My voice is still for war.

ADDISON, Cato. ii, 1.

There is war in the skies.

OWEN MEREDITH, Lucile. Pt. I, canto iv, st. 12.

Are you good men and true?

Much Ado About Nothing. iii, 3.

I came, saw, and overcame.

King Henry IV. Pt. II, iv, 3, 1. 45. Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

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Hold the Fort! I am coming.

GEN. WM. T. SHERMAN. Signal to Gen. Corse,

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My nearest and dearest enemy.
MIDDLETON, Anything for a Quiet Life. v, 1.

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Women's jars breed men's wars.

FULLER, The Wise Statesman.

All battle is misunderstanding.

BACON.

I bring you peace with honour.

BEACONSFIELD.

Our antagonist is our helper.

BURKE, Revolution in France.

See the conquering hero comes.

THOMAS MORELL.

Instinct is a great matter: I was a coward on instinct. King Henry IV. Pt. I, ii, 4.

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SOUTHEY, Joan of Arc. Bk. III, 1. 465.

War is not as onerous as servitude.

VAUVENARGUES.

Peace the offspring is of Power.

TAYLOR, A Thousand Years.

Revenge is an expensive luxury.

ANON.

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