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• Chapter XIII OF Auxiliary, Mixed, and National Arms The second sort of unprofitable arms are auxiliarie
  by whom I mean, troops brought to help and protect you by a potentate whom you summon to your aid...
• He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds.
  Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him....
• Wake up all you citizens, hear your country's call, Not to arms and violence, But peace for one and all.
  Crush out hate and prejudice, fear and greed and sin, Help bring back her dignity, restore her faith again....
• And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
• Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
  -- Goethe (1749-1832) -- Wilhelm Meister, Book ii, Chap. xiii...
• We are firm believers in the maxim that for all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Goethe, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• I'm against firm female bodies, as often as possible.
• To take arms against a C of troubles.