| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 56975 |
| QUOTATION: | To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Tacitus (c. 55c. 120), Roman historian. Quoting the British chief Calgalus speaking of the Romans, in Agricola, sect. 30. |
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