Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.
Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
America does not fight for land, glory or riches.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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