Cannon Fodder

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“Why are the masses, from the dawn of history down, food for knives and powder?  The idea dignifies a few leaders, who have sentiment, opinion, love, self-devotion; and they make war and death sacred; — but what for the wretches they hire and kill?  The cheapness of man is every day’s tragedy.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Uses of Great Men

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