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... fighting on foot to its utmost perfection , and to remain prosperous and happy themselves , whatever might be the fate they inflicted upon their neighbors . And even the armies of Continental Europe , as they existed before the Great ...
... fighting on foot to its utmost perfection , and to remain prosperous and happy themselves , whatever might be the fate they inflicted upon their neighbors . And even the armies of Continental Europe , as they existed before the Great ...
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... fighting than for large - scale syste- matic fighting . Hatred campaigns and a sustained propaganda are needed to keep up the combatant spirit in a large modern state , even during actual hostilities ; and in the case of Russia we have ...
... fighting than for large - scale syste- matic fighting . Hatred campaigns and a sustained propaganda are needed to keep up the combatant spirit in a large modern state , even during actual hostilities ; and in the case of Russia we have ...
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... fight , under an accepted code of rules . This is , we hold , a delusion . Our case is that the nations can agree far more easily to abolish war than to restrict war . It is true that , in the Great War , Germany has carried her ...
... fight , under an accepted code of rules . This is , we hold , a delusion . Our case is that the nations can agree far more easily to abolish war than to restrict war . It is true that , in the Great War , Germany has carried her ...
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... fight because they are angry , they stop because they are tired ; they cease pursuing the enemy because they want to attend to the harvest . It is the mark of a highly organized and intellec- tualized government to subordinate national ...
... fight because they are angry , they stop because they are tired ; they cease pursuing the enemy because they want to attend to the harvest . It is the mark of a highly organized and intellec- tualized government to subordinate national ...
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... fighting men abroad , no weeping maids at home ; All the world should be at peace , or , if kings must show their might , Then let those who make the quarrels be the only men to fight . But even Jeannette evidently realized that the ...
... fighting men abroad , no weeping maids at home ; All the world should be at peace , or , if kings must show their might , Then let those who make the quarrels be the only men to fight . But even Jeannette evidently realized that the ...
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