"Even though the war be wrong, we are in it! We cannot retire without dishonor!" Why, not...
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Mark Twain:
Man is the only animal who deals in the atrocity of war. He's the only one, that for sordid wages, goes forth in cold blood to exterminate his own kind. He has a motto for this: "Our country, right or wrong!"... And he has another motto: "Even though the war be wrong, we are in it! We cannot retire without dishonor!" Why, not even a burglar could have said that better
Man is the only animal who deals in the atrocity of war. He's the only one, that for sordid wages, goes forth in cold blood to exterminate his own kind. He has a motto for this: "Our country, right or wrong!"... And he has another motto: "Even though the war be wrong, we are in it! We cannot retire without dishonor!" Why, not even a burglar could have said that better
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when it's wrong
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Otherwise the nation has sold its honor for a phrase
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And if that phrase needs help it gets another one
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Even though the war be wrong
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we are in it
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We must fight it out
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we cannot retire
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without dishonor
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Movie Summary
Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, 'Hal Holbrook' portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians, newspapermen and so-called patriots in this 90 minute monologue. Holbrook adapted Twain's...
Actors
Mark Twain (samuel Langhorne Clemens)
