If chasing a pipe dream means securing our freedom, then so be it.

As long as there will be something to conquer, world peace will be a pipe dream

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.