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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of milita

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. – Walter Bagehot

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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. – Walter Bagehot

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History
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. – Walter Bagehot

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Death
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. – Walter Bagehot

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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. – Camille Paglia

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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. – George McGovern

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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it. – Desiderius Erasmus

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