Mark Helprin
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Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both. ✨ Mark Helprin (2005). A Soldier of the Great War, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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