If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cul…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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