If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
Bio: Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, 1st Baron Pakenham known to his family as Frank Longford and as Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961, was a British politician and social reformer.