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The ease of financing war, combined with rulers' inclination to it, is a great obstacle to peace
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What Immanuel Kant actually said
- Immanuel Kant German philosopher (1724 to 1804), born in Königsberg
The ease, then, with which war may be waged, coupled with the inclination of rulers towards it—an inclination which seems to be implanted in human nature—is a great obstacle in the way of perpetual peace.
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↗Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay (1795; M. Campbell Smith translation)gutenberg.org
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