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.
-John Stewart Mill
