[Aurelius]

"Wartime brings the ideal of the State out into very clear relief, and reveals attitudes and tendencies that were hidden. In times of peace the sense of the State flags in a Republic that is not militarized. For war is essentially the health of the State.

Randolph Bourne

1919

[Storm Orphan]

"War... is the moment when the energy of a single hand shows itself in the most seducing form."
-Thomas Jefferson to Hector St. John de Crevecoeur,1788.