I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
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When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
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