Often I Must Speak Otherwise Than I

All Governments Suffer A Recurring Problem: Power Attracts Pathological Personalities. It Is Not That Power Corrupts But That It Is Magnetic To The Corruptible. Such People Have A Tendency To Become Drunk On Violence, A Condition To Which They Are Quickly Addicted.

We Faced It And Did Not Resist. The Storm Passed Through Us And Around Us. It's Gone, But We Remain.

What Has Mood To Do With It? You Fight When The Necessity Arises—no Matter The Mood! Mood's A Thing For Cattle Or Making Love Or Playing The Baliset. It's Not For Fighting.

Historians Exercise Great Power And Some Of Them Know It. They Recreate The Past, Changing It To Fit Their Own Interpretations. Thus, They Change The Future As Well.

The Gift Of Words Is The Gift Of Deception And Illusion.