महाराणा कुम्भा (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य के अद्वितीय विजेता, निर्माता व विद्वान्)

Maharana Kumbha.
crush them when they could easily do so,
even though this was necessary to save
their country from attack. They even went
further, and, as we have seen in this book,
spared their foes when the latter fell into
their hands, and sometimes even sent them
home loaded with gifts under proper escort,
completely ignoring the direful results of
similar previous acts of misconceived genero-
sity, repeatedly shown by Hindu monarchs.
They never learnt the lesson that the
best defence against an enemy is to attack
him, and that one can never break the
power of an enemy by limiting one's activi-
ties to mere defence. The inevitable result of
a purely defensive policy is loss of one's posses-
sions. The law of nature is that you must
advance, make progress. or fall back and dis-
appear. Individuals may comfort themselves
that they would gain Heaven by pursuing
this policy, but they would lose their freedom
and their country as surely as that the day
follows the night.
It is the first principle of political conduct
that you should not only defend yourself
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