In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias,
they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed...
but they produced Michelangelo,
Leonardo Da Vinci,
and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love.
They had five-hundred years of
democracy and peace,
and what did that produce?
The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles
The lhird Man
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