John Stevens Cabot Abbott Professions : Historian Born : September 19, 1805 Died : June 17, 1877 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by John Stevens Cabot Abbott Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined. John Stevens Cabot Abbott causes powerful mother He who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter its perils, from love of country and of home--who is willing to sacrifice himself and all that is dear to him in life, to promote the well-being of his fellow-man, will ever receive a worthy homage. John Stevens Cabot Abbott home war country War is science of destruction. John Stevens Cabot Abbott destruction war Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809. John Stevens Cabot Abbott kentucky country book If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek. John Stevens Cabot Abbott tears eye war Similar Authors Abram L. Sachar historian Bryan Ward-Perkins historian Bruce Catton historian Bruce Bartlett historian Brian Crozier historian Allan Nevins historian All Authors
