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Anyone with less than half the money the militars spend should had "got" me all those things. But they didn't. As the old saying goes, the Swiss had peace for
by gaius 9y ago
Anyone with less than half the money the militars spend should had "got" me all those things.
But they didn't. As the old saying goes, the Swiss had peace for 500 years and all they invented was the cuckoo clock.
- tradersam 9y agoThe quote: "You know what the fellow said—in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." —The Third Man (1949)