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Originally Posted by johncage
yeah it's cringe, his old motto used to be more clever/profound but it was a bit verbose
"a nation that draws great distinction between its scholars and warriors will have its laws drafted by fools and its wars fought by cowards"
i think it's a call back to classical greek or roman antiquity when scholars and statesmen were also usually veterans
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It's often incorrectly attributed to Thucydides, but it's actually from a 19th century British Army officer named Sir William Butler: "The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards."
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"The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards." William Francis Butler (not Thucydides)
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