Lest I Come And Smite The Land With Peace

Especially since the War in Iraq, this quotation has become fairly well-known: Why, of course the people do not want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor for that matter in