Quote by Walter Bagehot
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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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. – Walter Bagehot

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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other mens thoughts, to speak other mens words, to follow other mens habits. – Walter Bagehot

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In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. – Neville Chamberlain

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War settles nothing. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. – George Bernard Shaw

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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. – James Madison

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