"A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War."

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"A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War."

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"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

War,

"The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

War, Defense, Departure, Enemy

"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

War, Mankind

"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

War, Existence, Endurance, Conflict

"To hold a pen is to be at war."

Voltaire, French Writer

War, Pen

"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

War, Civilization, May

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

War, Conflict, Survival, Strategy

"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed."

Blessing

"LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others."

Affection

"That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due."

Government

"All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate."

Soul

"TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures."

God

"IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established."

Duty

"If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse."

Country

"A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced."

Rebellion

"THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government."

Government

"To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained."

Government