A standing army is like a standing member: an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure. Elbridge Gerry, 5th US Vice President and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.THE WAR WHICH IS COMING is not the first one. There were other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end there were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people starved.
When the last one came to an end there were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people starved.
Among the conquerors the common people starved too.
Berthold Brecht, German Playwright 1898 - 1956
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect.
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect.
Shakespeare, Henry V, Act III