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War Quotes by William James
- For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
- Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the…
- The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its…
- The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly…
- So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war…
- A great nation is not saved by wars, it is saved by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly;…
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