It is not the love of our countries, it is their sharp-edged difference, proud and aggressive, which we placard in the face of the others.

It is the gaudy eagle which conquerors and their devotees see flying in their dreams from steeple to steeple in foreign lands.

The sacred defense of the homeland--well and good.

But if there was no offensive war there would be defensive war.

Defensive war has the same infamous cause as the offensive war which provoked it; why do we not confess it?
We persist, through blindness or duplicity, in cutting the question in two, as if it were too great.