"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."
— Fighting

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Carlyle, as quoted by Emma Goldman in her essay, "Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty", chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays (2nd revised edition, 1911).