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Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam Quotes: Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.
         

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.


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Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.



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The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke



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He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.



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