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Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
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I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
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The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.
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Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.
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We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.
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All of my novels are democracies.