If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.
There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.
Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
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