If Might made Right, life were a wild-beasts’ cage;
If Right made Might, this were the golden age;
But now, until we win the long campaign,
Right must gain Might to conquer and to reign.

Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) American clergyman and writer
“Might and Right” (1 Jul 1915)

 
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