QUOTE FOR THE DAY: Edmund Burke Letters on a Regicide Peace (emphasis mine):
"Speculative plunder; contingent spoil; future, long adjourned, uncertain booty; pillage which must enrich a late posterity, and wich possibly may not reach to posterity at all; these, for any length of time, will never support a mercenary war. On balancing the account of such wars, ten thousand hogsheads of sugar are purchased at ten thousand times their price. The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind.* The rest is vanity; the rest is crime."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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