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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

The End of Empire

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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
- Ambrose Bierce

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Frederick Douglass, "A Plea for Free Speech" (1860)

“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power.”

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Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun

Government: "an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself"

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