“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.”
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.