"Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior."
- Thucydides
"You know well as I do that when we are talking on the human plane, questions of justice only arise when there is equal power to compel: in terms of practicality the dominant exact what they can and th..."
"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."
"Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war."
"It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men."
"In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our hopes not on a belief in his blunders, but on the soundness of o..."
"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."
"They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life do not on that account shrink from danger."