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The Modern Conqueror Cannot "take" Any Spoils. -- Sir Norman Angell (1872-1967)
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The modern conqueror cannot "take" any spoils.
-- Sir Norman Angell (1872-1967)
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Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
-- Sir Norman Angell...
The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war -- want war, clamor for war as, again and again, we have seen whole peoples doing -- by capturing the popular will.
The only prophylactic against that situation is to make the public aware of the way in which it is being misled....
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
-- Epictetus (50-138 AD)...
We cannot allow any race as greedy and corruptible as yours to have free run of the galaxy.
-- Norman the android, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3....
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks. -- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), 1967
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom the true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
-- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), 1967...
Army food: the spoils of war.
Many problems of modern society cannot be solved by laws and the legal system because moral behavior cannot be legislated.
Norman, put the knife down, Norman...Norman?...NORMAN!