Project Syndicate [PRO-S]

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The
decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling
which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The
person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal
safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being
free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better
men than himself.