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Democracies are indeed slow to make war but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable rather than a vindictive peace.
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Goodness armed with power is corrupted, and pure love without power is destroyed.
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.
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