A Vision Of War
Robert G. Ingersoll
The past rises before me like a dream. Again we are in the great struggle for national life.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon, a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead deity, and gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare and nameless marble, where rest at last the ashes of that restless man. I leaned over the balustrade and thought about the career of the greatest soldier of the modern world.
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