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if we fail to
learn the lesson that to manage a war properly you must not follow the trend of
events but must forestall them, and that just as an army looks to its general
for guidance, so statesmen must guide circumstances, if they are to carry out
their policy and not be forced to follow at the heels of chance.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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