"The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive."

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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy.

— Simon Schama