John Stuart Mill: Military
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things;
the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks
that nothing is worth war is much worse.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight;
nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety;
is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free,
unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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