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We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is read more
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
'Twas in Trafalgar's bay
The saucy Frenchmen lay.
'Twas in Trafalgar's bay
The saucy Frenchmen lay.
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, read more
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.
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.
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.
They shall not pass till the stars be darkened:
Two swords crossed in front of the Hun;
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They shall not pass till the stars be darkened:
Two swords crossed in front of the Hun;
Never a groan but God has harkened,
Counting their cruelties one by one.
It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that
this is war.
It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that
this is war.
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder read more
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
