Trantor could win even such a war, but perhaps not without paying a price that would make victory only a… — Isaac Asimov

First, there must be an end to war and national rivalry and only then could one turn to the internal miseries that, after all, had external conflict as their chief cause.

Junz found revulsion growing strong within him. A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!

“You make interstellar politics sound a very dirty game.”

“It is, but disapproving of dirt doesn’t remove it.”