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One has to try to strike the jugular and let the rest go.
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Speech on the death of Walbridge Abner Field, Chief Justice of Massachusetts (November 25, 1899), reported in Speeches by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1900), p. 77.

 

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

 

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Strike—for your altars and your fires!
Strike—for the green graves of your sires!
God, and your native land!

 

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