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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

Clarence Darrow
War, Men, Effort
Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.220, Lulu.com

The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the boy just as he enters manhood and teaches him that his highest duty is to shoot a bullet through his neighbor's heart - and this, unmoved by passion or feeling or hatred, and without the least regard to right or wrong, but simply because his ruler gives the word.

Clarence Darrow
War, Heart, Passion

The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs

Clarence Darrow
War, Building Up, People
"Resist Not Evil". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1904.

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