The war itself, the Confederate defeat and Union victory.

内战本身，邦联的失败，联邦的胜利。

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I had many conversations with 8th Route Army officers on this subject and I soon found out that their belief in victory lay in their analysis of the character of the civil war itself.

就这个问题我与八路军的军官有过多次交谈。很快，我发现他们的必胜信念是基于对内战的性质的分析上面。

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The sacrifices of these men and women, and of our military families, reminds us that the wages of war are great; that while service to our nation is full of glory, war itself is never glorious.

这些军人的奉献以及他们家庭承受的牺牲提醒我们，战争的代价是巨大的，虽然他们对国家的贡献是荣耀的，战争本身却永远不是光荣的。

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It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time,through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our great natural resources.

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War is right at the center of it, and war itself requires political and social organization.

战争是故事的主题,战争就需要社会与政治的组织

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Now, out of all of this, again to repeat, we are not making the argument that the Thirty Years' War itself led to absolute rule, that the growth of state structures can be seen in the beginning and the late medieval period with the consolidation of these territorial monarchies.

综上所述,我再重复一遍,我们并不能推断说,三十年战争本身导致了绝对主义的发展,国家的构建在中世纪的早期,以及晚期的领土兼并中就已经初见端倪

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But war itself is never glorious, and we must never trumpet it as such.

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Never was the mismatch between the idea of the war and the war itself more apparent.

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The war itself, on this view, shows in unexpected clarity the limits of American power.

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