Andrew Bacevich (1947) United States Army officer
Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country (2013).
“A thousand touching traits testify to the sacred power of the love which a righteous war awakes in noble nations.”
German History, Volume I, p. 482.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "A thousand touching traits testify to the sacred power of the love which a righteous war awakes in noble nations." by Heinrich von Treitschke?
Heinrich von Treitschke9
Historian, political writer 1834–1896Related quotes
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“I wish luck to you and your nation that loves you as the election results we can see testify.”
Silvio Berlusconi (1936) Italian politician
On Alexander Lukashenko, as quoted in Results of the official visit of Silvio Berlusconi to Belarus at belarus.by (1 December 2009) the official website of the Republic of Belarus http://www.belarus.by/en/press-center/news/results-of-the-official-visit-of-silvio-berlusconi-to-belarus_i_0000000549.html <br class="br">2009
“I wish luck to you and your nation that loves you, as the election results we can see testify.”
Alexander Lukashenko (1954) President of Belarus since 20 July 1994
Silvio Berlusconi in Minsk, as quoted in Results of the official visit of Silvio Berlusconi to Belarus http://www.belarus.by/en/press-center/news/results-of-the-official-visit-of-silvio-berlusconi-to-belarus_i_0000000549.html, 1 Dec. 2009, from belarus.by.
“But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them.”
Solomon (-990–-931 BC) king of Israel and the son of David
“War is righteous or unrighteous according as it is opportune or inopportune.”
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1878/jan/17/address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-most#column_54 in the House of Lords (17 January 1878) <br class="br">1870s
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
"Under the Harvest Moon" (1916)
Context: Under the summer roses
When the flagrant crimson
Lurks in the dusk
Of the wild red leaves,
Love, with little hands,
Comes and touches you
With a thousand memories,
And asks you
Beautiful, unanswerable questions.