"In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time."

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“Right or community of blood was not the bond of union between them, so much as interest or compulsion as the case may be.”

“I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.”

“That war is an evil is a proposition so familiar to every one that it would be tedious to develop it. No one is forced to engage in it by ignorance, or kept out of it by fear, if he fancies there is anything to be gained by it.”

“In a democracy . . . someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.”

“self-control contains honour as a chief constituent, and honour bravery.”

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