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War Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
- If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms,…
- He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
- Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
- Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better…
- Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting…
- If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.
- War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that…
- War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza,…
- Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
- The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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