They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. (Eugene V. Debs)

They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command.

Eugene V. Debs

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