War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change.
Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.
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