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Fighting men are the city's fortress.
Fighting men are the city's fortress.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone,
But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the read more
Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone,
But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment read more
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.
Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only read more
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.