If such assemblies are called to a nominal share in the exercise of such power, in order to screen, under general participation, the guilt of desperate measures, it tends only the more deeply to corrupt the deliberative character of those assemblies, in training them to blind obedience, in Habituating them to proceed upon grounds of fact with which they can rarely be sufficiently acquainted, and in rendering them executive instruments of designs the bottom of which they cannot possibly fathom.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
A third ordinance or Rhetra was, that they should not make war often, or long, with the same enemy, lest that they should train and instruct them in war, by Habituating them to defend themselves.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
He would go into public without shoes and tunic after dinner, not seeking for reputation by the strangeness of the practice, but Habituating himself to be ashamed only of what was shameful, and to despise everything else as indifferent.
"Plutarch's Lives Volume III."
Plutarch