Posted on 02/25/2003 8:56:57 AM PST by DrNo
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 (1806 - 1873)
Well, a classical liberal anyway.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Can someone copy the French on this?
"It is well that war is so terrible -- or we should grow too fond of it." Gen. Robert E. Lee
If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Martin Luther King, June 23, 1963
If any question why we died, tell them it is because our fathers lied.
"How dare you molest the seas?" asks Alexander the Great. "How dare you molest the whole world?" the pirate replies. "Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief. You, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor".
"All bad precedents began as justifiable measures." Julius Caesar.
"May noise never excite us to battle, or confusion reduce us to defeat."
"Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you."--Abraham Lincoln
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine
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