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How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out read more
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
War challenges virtually every other institution of society--the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, read more
War challenges virtually every other institution of society--the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.
When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no read more
When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful
If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful
If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two
sentences. In the first place, read more
If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two
sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international
obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting
man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are
fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are
not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the
arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
