Be willing to treat our allies just as we would our friends and not to grant them independence in words, while in fact giving them over to our generals to do with as they please, and not to exercise our leadership as masters but as helpers. Isocrates. On The Peace. Section 134.
Images: Greek and Achaemenid warriors during the Greco-Persian wars from the exhibit "Democracy and the Battle of Marathon in Athens, Greece in 2010 courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Tilemahos Efthimiadis.
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