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We never pay anyone dane-geld, no matter how trifling the cost; for the end of that game is oppression and shame, and the nation that plays it is lost!
-Rudyard Kipling
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We Never Pay Anyone Dane-geld, No Matter

Rudyard Kipling
We never pay anyone dane-geld, no matter how trifling the cost; for the end of that game is oppression and shame, and the nation that plays it is lost!
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