一個國家可以突然間，舉國上下瘋狂追求軍事光環；又可能在突然間，沉淪在某種宗教顧慮中，直至血流成河、哀鴻片野，理智這才逐漸恢復，而後代卻要為此無辜受累。
—查爾斯．麥凱（蘇格蘭作家）
“We see one nation suddenly seized, from its highest to its lowest members, with a fierce desire of military glory; another as suddenly becoming crazed upon a religious scruple; and neither of them recovering its senses until it has shed rivers of blood and sowed a harvest of groans and tears, to be reaped by its posterity.”
—Charles Mackay, Scottish journalist
