“There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.”
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.