Waiting Hopefully

Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota and Democratic candidate for Vice President, addressing the AFSCME in Los Angeles on 13th August:  “My wife often reminds me, hope is a great word and a beautiful name, but it’s not a damn plan… You don’t hope to win, you plan, prepare and work to win.”

The Athenians at Melos (Thucydides 5.103): “Hope is certainly an encouragement in time of danger, and those who rely on hope when they have other resources may be damaged but are not destroyed by it. Hope, however, is prodigal by nature, and those who stake everything they have on it see the truth only at the moment of disaster…”

Gwen Walz is the Thucydides reader, then?