Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required ‘blood and sweat and tears.’

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood … there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.