"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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