> In the freest of republics as well as in the most tyrannical of empires, all foreign policy, the diplomatic negotiations which produce or forestall war, are equally the private property of the Executive part of the Government, and are equally exposed to
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check whatever from popular bodies, or the people voting as a mass themselves.
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War is the health of the state - Randolph Bourne

This classic first part of an essay entitled "The State," left unfinished at Bourne's untimely death in 1918, it explores the connection between patriotism, war, and the State.

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"All warfare is based on deception."
#SunTzu quoted in #AtWarWithWar a book that has #WarIsTheHealthOfTheState by #RandolphBourne in addition to #MarkTwain with his #WarPrayer #war is bad.

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Library Genesis: Bourne, Randolph Silliman;Chwast, Seymour;Erasmus, Desiderius;Sunzi - At War with War

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