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"To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace."
Shame that Calgacus and his speech were almost certainly invented by Tacitus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgacus
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"To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace."
Shame that Calgacus and his speech were almost certainly invented by Tacitus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgacus