Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars…

Abraham Lincoln
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Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object ✨ Abraham Lincoln (2011). Lincoln on War, p.36, Algonquin Books
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