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— William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling"Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease."
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In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.
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The Council of the Union of Democratic Control re-affirms its unshaken conviction that a lasting settlement cannot be secured by a peace based upon the right of conquest and followed by commercial war, but only by a peace which gives just consideration to the claims of nationality, and which lays the foundation of a real European partnership.
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