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“Without trade the world will become what it was once—a hell where only the strongest arm and the heaviest lash was law. The meek will never inherit the earth. Aye, but at least they can be protected by law to live out their lives as they wish.”
― Tai-Pan
― Tai-Pan
“When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.”
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“Preconceived, fixed notions can be more damaging than cannon.”
― The First Salute : View of the American Revolution
― The First Salute : View of the American Revolution
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Ending a war is a difficult and delicate business. Even intelligent rulers, when they exist, often find themselves unable to terminate a war, should they want to. Each side must become convinced at the same time and with equal certainty that its war aim is either not achievable or not worth the cost or damage to the state.”
― The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
― The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
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