You can’t expect ordinary people to remember about grandfathers and half—sisters and things of that sort. In any case human beings don’t go to war for private quarrels nowadays. You need a national grievance – something to do with politics which is waiting to burst out.
 T. H. White, The Once and Future King (1958). copy citation

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Author T. H. White
Source The Once and Future King
Topic politics war
Date 1958
Language English
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