The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.


The adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses; from the French (etc.) (ed. 1795)

François Fénelon Quotes

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.