Walter Bagehot Quotes About War
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War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.
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Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
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