“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
Augustus (-63–14 BC) founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire
“When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.”
Eleven Declarations of War (London: Harcourt Brace, 1975) p. 11
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