War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state.... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men! (Heinrich von Treitschke)

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state.... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

Heinrich von Treitschke

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