A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.
War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
War is not a thing one wants.
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