“Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.”
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer
"The Pacifist"
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
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