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War Quotes by Walter Bagehot
- War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience,…
- So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
- Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
- Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
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