"We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting."

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If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson