Tao Te Ching

“I would rather have America lose her empire than have her forfeit all the inspiration that she has meant to mankind... I believe it would have been cheaper, as well as more humane, to export food and technical aid to impoverished areas to advise threatened governments to become welfare states, to prod the great landowners in those countries to allow a wider distribution of land, to persuade industrial magnates that higher wages make for expanding markets, rising profits, economic stability, and political peace.”

— Will Durant 1885 – 1981 CE via On Vietnam
Philosophy apostle and popularizer of history's lessons
from Fallen Leaves