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    They smote and fell, who set the bars
    Against the progress of the stars,
    And stayed the march of Motherland!
    —Will Henry Thompson (1848–1918)

    I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.
    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)