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To: Cultural Jihad
Screw the company clock. The following is something i have and can't find an author for:

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which think 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.

55 posted on 03/26/2003 11:32:40 AM PST by JoeSixPack1 (POW/MIA - Bring 'em home, or send us back! Semper Fi)
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To: JoeSixPack1
Your quote is from John Stuart Mill - (scroll down - about halfway down the page) - "The Contest in America," pp. 208-09,
in John Stuart Mill, Dissertations and Discussions (Boston, 1867).

57 posted on 03/26/2003 11:38:36 AM PST by RonDog
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To: JoeSixPack1
Well said. Then again, you don't see the patriotic fellow griping about the consequences of his actions, do you?
58 posted on 03/26/2003 11:38:44 AM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: JoeSixPack1
Screw the company clock. The following is something i have and can't find an author for:

War is an ugly thing...

Google is your friend. :=) It was John Stuart Mill.

www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/q108447.html

72 posted on 03/26/2003 1:16:53 PM PST by Bob
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