“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
