Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.