What's up with the private messages?
Contradictions cannot exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. “To declaim against war in verse and prose… is to beat the air with vain sounds, for ambitious, unjust, or powerful rulers will certainly not be restrained by such means. But what may result, and what must necessarily result, is to extinguish little by little the military spirit, to make the government less interested in this important branch of administration, and some day to deliver up one’s own nation, softened and disarmed – or, what amounts to the same thing, badly armed and not knowing how to use arms – to the yoke of warlike nations which may be less civilized but which have more judgment and prudence.”
