“Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
20 August 1833
Table Talk (1821–1834)
“Real peace is won by resolve and sacrifice, while ephemeral peace is all too often concocted only by vowels and consonants.”
Context: At the very least, the ill-advised rush to "peace" is a likely candidate for the historical annals of self-destructive appeasement. The great sacrifices made by Americans in the Korean War, the legacy of the close US-South Korea relationship over the past 60 years, and future US strategic interests in and around the Korean Peninsula should not be sacrificed at the altar of diplomatic peace. Real peace is won by resolve and sacrifice, while ephemeral peace is all too often concocted only by vowels and consonants. (talking about a potential peace treaty between North Korea and the U. S., to replace the decades-long armistice signed in 1953)
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