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after our fearless leader's address last night, i decided that it was time for another pop quiz. the winner gets a piece of my birthday cake.

who said the following:

Nothing is more essential than that antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be avoided and that instead of them we should cultivate just and amicable feelings towards all. That nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave....It is a slave to its animosity, or to its affection--either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and interest. The nation urged by resentment and rage, sometimes compels the government to war, contrary to its own calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in this propensity and dons through passion what reason would forbid at other times; it makes the animosity of the nations subservient to hostile projects which originate in ambition and other sinister motives.

posted by ayatollah assahola @ 9:30 AM