“And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.”
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I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.