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Quote by Thomas Paine
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of he

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. – Thomas Paine

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War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. – Thomas Paine

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War
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Thomas Paine
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. – Thomas Paine

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Independence Day
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. – Abu Bakr

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