Leo Tolstoy: Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.

Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from the — Leo Tolstoy

Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.

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Hosti non solum dandam esse viam fugiendi verum etiam muniendam. — Give the enemy not only a road for flight
There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war. — Tom Clancy
Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess. — Oscar Wilde
Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse. — Swami Vivekananda
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The evil that men do lives after them. Yes, and a good deal of the evil that the — Samuel Butler