“Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.”
— John Steinbeck, book The Moon Is Down
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