To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
Regardless of what one’s attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
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