Quotation by Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835), German statesman, philologist. repr. (1854), trans. and ed. J.W. Burrow (1969). Limits of State Action, ch. 5 (1792).
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