I see nothing superior in a man willing to trade his life for public applause, and I can see no more superiority in him when is a soldier than when he is a prize fighter, a lion tamer or a parachute jumper at a county fair.
The kinds of courage I really admire are not whooped up in war. No one in such times of irrational and animal-like emotions ever praises a man who. . .seeks to restore the national thinking to so called, to reasonable sanity.
H.L. Menken
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