"War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade."
― Percy Bysshe Shelley
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War
More From Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
- "Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
- "Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret."
More In War
- "War is a blessing compared with national degradation."― Andrew Jackson
- "It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."― Douglas MacArthur
- "America’s veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today’s Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress’ action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols."― Bill Shuster