“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.