The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
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The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that a man does not consider himself honored in defending it, at the risk of his life.

— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
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