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Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

Walter Bagehot
Life, Courage, War

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Walter Bagehot
Business, War, Tyrants
Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.65

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

Walter Bagehot
Military, War, Race
Walter Bagehot (1999). “Physics and Politics, Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, Ivan R Dee

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Walter Bagehot
Military, War, Impact
Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.75

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