Now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust.

Adin Ballou (23 April 1803 – 5 August 1890) was an American Unitarian minister, abolitionist and pacifist.

Quotes

  • But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. "Might makes right," and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.
    • Christian Non-Resistance: In All its Important Bearings, Illustrated and Defended (1846).
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