“Come, let us wage a holy war!”
Jan Struther (1901–1953) British writer
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“Not chaffering war but waging war, not with gold but with iron—thus let us of both sides make trial for our lives”
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in De Officiis, Book I, Chapter XII
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