Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
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In the days and in the years that are to come we shall work for a just and honorable peace, a durable peace, as today we work and fight for total victory in war. We can and we will achieve such a peace.
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will.
There are two systems, the past and the future. The present is only a painful transition. Which must triumph? The future, will it not? Yes indeed, the future! That is, intelligence, industry, and peace. The past was brute force, privilege, and ignorance. Each of our victories was a triumph for the ideas of the Revolution. Victories will be won, one of these days, without cannon, and without bayonets.
Everyone can see how communism rots the soul of a nation. How it makes it abject in peace and proves it abominable in war.
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