“Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.”
Quote by Plutarch
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“Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.”
“War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.”
“To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.”
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