H. L. Mencken Quotes about Military

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There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

H. L. Mencken

Military, Records, Valuable

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

H. L. Mencken

Military, War, Mean

H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.23, Knopf

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

H. L. Mencken

Spiritual, Military, War