I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die it requires careful preparation.
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Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this I would not know But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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