"On en trouve [l'argent] toujours quand il s’agit d’aller faire tuer des hommes sur la frontière: il n’y en a plus quand il faut les sauver."
— Money

January 1, 1970

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Money is always to be found when men are to be sent to the frontiers to be destroyed: when the object is to preserve them, it is no longer so. — Voltaire, Questions sur l'Encyclopédie, "Charity" (1770)