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“War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.”

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh

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The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh

This book includes a variety of works by Sir Walter Ralegh, covering his poetry, prose, and historical writings, showcasing his contributions to English literature and exploration. more

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Walter Raleigh

Walter Raleigh was an English writer, explorer, soldier, and politician. He is renowned for his poetry, such as 'The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd', and his involvement in the establishment of the Roanoke Colony in North America. Raleigh served as a courtier to Elizabeth I and later became a favorite of King James I. more

“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.”

Source: Physics and Politics, Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration.”

Source: Thoughts on parliamentary reform. Recent writers on reform. Bain's psychology. A few words on non-intervention. The contest in America. Austin on jurisprudence. Plato

“War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.”

May War Situation Accepted Ignored

Book:The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

“War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.”

War Drama Supreme

Book:Technics and Civilization

Source: Technics and Civilization

“War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.”