Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1919 |
| AUTHOR: | Abraham Flexner (1866–1959) |
| QUOTATION: | Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. |
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| SUBJECTS: | War |