"A bad peace is even worse than war."
-Tacitus
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"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty."
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"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it."
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"A bad peace is even worse than war."
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"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."
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"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man."
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
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