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The State of Opinion It is the method of modern statesmen to talk as much folly as the public demand and to practise no more of it than is compatible with what they have said, trusting that such folly in action as must wait on folly in word ...

I argued that much of it was impossible; but I do not agree with many critics, who held that, for this very reason, it was also harmless. -from The State of Opinion Almost immediately after its ratification, it became clear that the Treaty ...

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