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"A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." -
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War & Peace
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"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago."
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"A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
"If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!"
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