"The peace does not keep itself, and though it may be intellectually unfashionable to say so, the world needs a policeman."
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Donald Kagan
(May 1, 1932 – August 6, 2021) was an American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Kagan was considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history and is notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War.
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