War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances …

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. ✨ Prospects on the Rubicon (1787)
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