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War Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
- It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able…
- No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing…
- To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy which is in…
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