"For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world."

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The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense has a passive purpose: preservation; and attack a positive one: conquest.... If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.

— Carl von Clausewitz