'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.
As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.
Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.
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