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'''Robo:''' But, Mr. Tesla, you're a ''pacifist.''<br />
'''Tesla:''' Yes, Robo. But ''you'' are not.|''[[Atomic Robo]]''}}
{{quote|Franklin gives an illuminating account of "the embarrassment given them (in the Pennsylvania assembly) whenever application was made to grant aids for military purposes." Unwilling to offend the government, and averse to violating their principles, he says, they used "a variety of evasions," the commonest one being to grant money "for the king's use" and avoid all inquiry as to the disbursement. But once, when New England asked Pennsylvania for a grant to buy powder, this ingenious device would not serve:
: They could not grant money to buy powder, for that was an ingredient of war; but they voted an aid of 3000 Pounds, and appropriated it for the purchasing of bread, flour, wheat "and other grain." Some of the council, desirous of giving the House still further embarrassment, advised the governor not to accept the provision, as not being the thing he had demanded; but he reply'd, "I shall take the money, for I understand very well their meaning — other grain is gunpowder." Which he accordingly bought, and they never objected to it.
| from ''Quakers and the War'' (1917 Newspaper Editorial), via [http://www.qhpress.org/quakerpages/qwhp/ww1naed.htm The Quaker Writings] }}
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