John Williams quote — “A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand…”

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A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that’s left is the brute, the creature that we — you and I and others like us — have brought up from the slime.

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