What Horrid Creatures We Men Are
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"that we cannot be virtuous without murdering one another?" John Adams
War necessarily brings with it some virtues, and great and heroic virtues, too. What horrid creatures we men are, that we cannot be virtuous without murdering one another?
John Adams, 1812, in a letter to Benjamin Rush
clipped December 21, 2004
Collection: American History - Politics and World Affairs