Quotation by Marquis de Sade

Are wars ... anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), French author. Dolmancé, in "Dialogue the Fifth: Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans," Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795).
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