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SALLY FIELD probably thought she was being new and daring when she screeched “If mothers ruled the world there wouldn’t be any goddamn wars in the first place,” but her recipe for perpetual world peace is right out of the hit song of 1915:

I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier, I brought him up to be my pride and

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Florence King

Florence King was a contributing editor of National Review.

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SALLY FIELD probably thought she was being new and daring when she screeched “If mothers ruled the world there wouldn’t be any goddamn wars in the first place,” but her recipe for perpetual world peace is right out of the hit song of 1915:

I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier, I brought him up to be my pride and