From Book II of Dryden's Aeneid; no exact Latin equivalent exists in Virgil's work, but compare: "Dolus, an virtus, quis in hoste requirat?" (Aeneid 2.390).
Misattributed
“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
Letter to John Wilson Croker (29 December 1835), quoted in L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830, Vol. II (1884), p. 288
“Not what we wish, but what we want,
Oh, let thy grace supply!”
Hymn, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let not that happen which I wish, but that which is right", Menander, Fragment.
“War isn't a fraud, Charlie, it's very real.”
Emily Barham
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Context: War isn't a fraud, Charlie, it's very real. At least that's what you always tried to tell me, isn't it? That we shall never get rid of war by pretending it's unreal? It's the virtue of war that's the fraud, not war itself. It's the valor and the self-sacrifice and the goodness of war that needs the exposing. And here you are being brave and self-sacrificing, positively clanking with moral fervor, perpetuating the very things you detest merely to do "the right thing". Honestly, Charlie, your conversion to morality is really quite funny. All this time I've been terrified of becoming Americanized, and you, you silly ass, have turned into a bloody Englishman
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Judicature
“Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.”
Campaign ad, quoted in Newsweek (23 June 2008), p. 21
2000s, 2008
Concerning the Jews (Harper's Magazine, Sept. 1899)
Speech to the American Red Cross "Promise of Humanity" conference http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=Newscenter.ViewPressRelease&Content_id=820 (6 May 1999).
1990s
“[T]he remedy of force can never supply the remedy of reason.”
Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
IX. 407–408 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
