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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2006-01-08 under

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-08-18:

"I have no way to defend my borders except to extend them." -- Catherine the Great (1729-1796), Empress of Russia (1762-1796).
(submitted to the mailing list by zdenek hora)

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posted by [identity profile] lpetrazickis.livejournal.com at 09:16pm on 2006-01-08
Yup. That's also how France ended up owning all that Sahara. Enterprising border patrollers pacifying the next chunk over in order to defend the current one.
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