The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.