“If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.”

— Paul Valéry

History and Politics http://books.google.com/books?id=7I82AAAAIAAJ&q=&quot;If+the+state+is+strong+it+crushes+us+If+it+is+weak+we+perish&quot; as translated by D. Folliot and J. Mathews (1971)

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