"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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"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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"Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee."
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