Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, a…

Thomas Paine
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Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government. ✨ 1791-2 The Rights of Man.
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