“The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.” YearsTwoWarStatesAbleChristianNationsStruggleModernEuropeDestructionArmyAncientDenyBrokeRanTortureAgencyCivilizedFearfulImmenseAsiaUtilityBattlefieldsDoubtfulGreat WarCannibalismRuthlessnessModern War Author:Winston Churchill
“Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.” MeanStatesPainFacesPovertyDangerInspireConcernedBraveryCourtNobleProofFearfulCowardice Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
“For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.” Has BeensCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesPeriodsArgumentPaidSavedOur TimeFollyTransitionFearfulCatastrophe Book:SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON Source: SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON