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An endless war for democracy would crush a nation's most precious thing, its youth's idealism

Drawn from what Randolph Bourne said

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democracy Elections, the losers accepting them, and the rules that keep power answerable to voters.

What Randolph Bourne actually said

  1. Randolph Bourne American essayist (1886 to 1918)
    If the enterprise goes on endlessly, the work, so blithely undertaken for the defense of democracy, will have crushed out the only genuinely precious thing in a nation, the hope and ardent idealism of its youth.

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