He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.
You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
But in modern war, you die like a dog for no good reason
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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