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Fighting men are the city's fortress.
Fighting men are the city's fortress.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a read more
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
