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Quotation worth reading
« on: February 19, 2013, 07:12:01 AM »

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
~ John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
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Re: Quotation worth reading
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2013, 07:22:43 AM »
Most people will never know or need to know at what point they will fight. The context of Mill's writing on this was a Europe frequently at war, and with a great deal of angst about the power of the state.