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Armies exist above all to defend governments from their own oppressed subjects
Drawn from what Leo Tolstoy said
What Leo Tolstoy actually said
- Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828 to 1910)
It is generally supposed that governments strengthen their forces only to defend the state from other states, in oblivion of the fact that armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
Where this was said
↗The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894; Constance Garnett translation)gutenberg.org
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