The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

A great lord is that, and a healer; and it is a thing passing strange to me that the healing hand should also wield the sword.

‘It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two, Master Warden,’ answered Éowyn. ‘And those who have not swords can still die upon them.

It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.