Peasant War

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“That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)