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Secrets Of Statecraft: What The Greeks And Romans Can Teach Us According to Victor Davis Hanson

The Secrets of Statecraft

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The Stasis in Corsira in Forty-Seven B C

Thucydides says that as the violence grew, those words were seen increasingly as the words of the weak or the naive. And he makes a stunning admission that when societies get in crisis like this, the people who are intellectuals and statesmen tend to be arrogant. But i think get the word he uses is the blunter wits. These are the sort of joseph stallins, the brawlers, or the malist,. Who know exactly that when you get into a situation like this, you've got to kill.

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