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War itself is not a mere science but a more fickle sort of thing, often subject to fate or chance, being an entirely human enterprise...

— Victor Davis Hanson A War Like No Other - How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (2005)

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There is no end of history. Instead, civilization is a constant fight to embrace what has worked for the common good through the ages—and to reject what in the past has failed abysmally.

The nature of man doesn’t change, and that’s reassuring, since we know the necessary conditions that can save him from himself.

Every problem has a resolution — but often not a good one.

Fundamentally Transformed (2016)

It is difficult to determine whether Georgians hated Sherman and his army as much as the Spartans despised Epaminondas and the Thebans. Both men had wrecked their centuries-old practice of apartheid in a matter of weeks. It is a dangerous and foolhardy thing for a slaveholding society to arouse a democracy of such men.

The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny (1999)

As a general rule, whatever Europe is now doing, we should do the opposite — for our very survival in an increasingly scary world.

Europe at the Edge of the Abyss (2016)

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