What is the quote by the famous 18th century English philosopher (name escapes me) about the worst moral state being unwillingness to fight for anything?
"All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke
It's this one:
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill
The fear of war is worse than war itself. --SenecaIf we truly understood this, would our domestic enemies be so bold?
A bad peace is even worse than war. --Tacitus