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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Walter Raleigh
War, Order, Ruins
Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.122

It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

Walter Raleigh
War, Home, Ambition
Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.293

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.

Walter Raleigh
War, Men, Body
Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.93

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

Walter Raleigh
War, Law, Action
Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.254

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.

Walter Raleigh
War, Jealous, Men
"A Collection of Literary Essays".

The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!

Walter Raleigh
Kings, War, House

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