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We are dealing with the very mightiest forces that through all the centuries and ages have moulded the fortunes of great States and the destinies of countless millions of mankind.
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Morley reflects on the powerful historical forces that have shaped nations and affected millions of lives.
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For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
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