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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

Rudyard Kipling
War, Men, Evil

A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling
Prayer, War, Soldier

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

Rudyard Kipling
Horse, War, Four
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Ballad of the King's Jest"

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

Rudyard Kipling
Father, War, Lied
"Common Form" l. 1 (1919)

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

Rudyard Kipling
War, Gun, Devil
Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.5108, Delphi Classics

However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.

Rudyard Kipling
War, Two, World
Rudyard Kipling (2008). “Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words : with a Checklist of His Speeches”, Elt Press

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.

Rudyard Kipling
Horse, War, Puff
'The Ballad of the King's Jest' (1892)

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