Comments on: War is not the Ugliest of Things http://www.pointmanspage.com/2003/12/01/war-is-not-the-ugliest-of-things/ Strange in a Stranger Land Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:15:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: L.J. Sklenar http://www.pointmanspage.com/2003/12/01/war-is-not-the-ugliest-of-things/#comment-47 Wed, 04 Aug 2004 14:33:08 +0000 http://www.pointmanspage.com/2003/12/01/war-is-not-the-ugliest-of-things/#comment-47 I found it! The ACTUAL quote is "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing [ital]worth[ital] a war, is worse. ...A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cards more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no change of being free, unless make and kept so by the exertions of beter men than himself." SOURCE: John Stuart Mill; originally published as "The Contest in America" in Fraser's Magazine, Issue LXV, February 1962. This version from "Dissertations and Discussions" Volume III (1867), pp. 179-205. I found it! The ACTUAL quote is “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing [ital]worth[ital] a war, is worse. …A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cards more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no change of being free, unless make and kept so by the exertions of beter men than himself.”
SOURCE: John Stuart Mill; originally published as “The Contest in America” in Fraser’s Magazine, Issue LXV, February 1962. This version from “Dissertations and Discussions” Volume III (1867), pp. 179-205.

]]> by: Pointman http://www.pointmanspage.com/2003/12/01/war-is-not-the-ugliest-of-things/#comment-29 Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:14:40 +0000 http://www.pointmanspage.com/2003/12/01/war-is-not-the-ugliest-of-things/#comment-29 I believe this quote was received via the Federalist mailing list. The list sometimes cites the source and sometimes not. Either way I seldom add it here though I may reconsider since I received occassional requests such as yours. <a href="http://www.federalist.com/">http://www.federalist.com/</a> I believe this quote was received via the Federalist mailing list. The list sometimes cites the source and sometimes not. Either way I seldom add it here though I may reconsider since I received occassional requests such as yours.

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]]> by: L.J. Sklenar http://www.pointmanspage.com/2003/12/01/war-is-not-the-ugliest-of-things/#comment-28 Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:01:51 +0000 http://www.pointmanspage.com/2003/12/01/war-is-not-the-ugliest-of-things/#comment-28 Do you happen to know in which of John Stuart Mill's publications that quotation can be found? Thanks. Do you happen to know in which of John Stuart Mill’s publications that quotation can be found? Thanks.

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