Truces, arrived at after violence, are never anything but provisional, and satisfy no one.
Human passions stop only before a moral power they respect.
If all authority of this kind is wanting, the law of the strongest prevails, and latent or active, the state of war is necessarily chronic. To justify this chaotic state, we vainly praise its encouragement of individual liberty. It is indeed in the national interests of the United States to intervene in Bosnia. I cannot imagine a higher or deeper national interest.