All wars are sacred, he said. To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didnt make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles. But so few people ever realize it. Their ears are too full of bugles and drums and the fine words from stay-at-home orators. Sometimes the rallying cry is save the Tomb of Christ from the Heathen! Sometimes its down with Popery! and sometimes Liberty! and sometimes Cotton, Slavery and States Rights!
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Margaret Mitchell was a 19th-century American novelist and journalist. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Read more on Wikipedia →