A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. (G. K. Chesterton)

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

G. K. Chesterton

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