War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. ✨ Th…

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War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence, p.135, Algora Publishing
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