“It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.”
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
Book III, ode ii, line 13
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. ~ Horace in Odes, Book 3, Ode 2, Line 13, as translated in The Works of Horace by J. C. Elgood
Notes on the Next War (1935)
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