Are wars. . . anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
Source: Dolmanc?, in Philosophy in the Bedroom, Dialogue the Fifth: Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans (1795).
-- Marquis de Sade, (Jun 2 1740-1814), French novelist; He was the author of erotic writings that gave rise to the term sadism; wrote Justine.