“Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.”
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
World history is tragic.
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.