War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations. - Walter Bagehot

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Walter Bagehot: "War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations."

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Advantage	Called	Certain	Discipline
Generated	Generates	Give	Habit
Highest	Likely	Make	Matter
Military	Nation	Nations	Needs
Obedience	Others	Possessed	Preliminary
Race	Spirit	Stay	Them
These	Valor	Veracity	Virtues

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