“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.”
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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.
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.