Virtues, mind you, which you only have because we beat them into you, over the centuries. Often enough with blood and iron. Usually our blood and your iron, but blood always wins out.
- as spoken by Michael Stearns (President, Grantville Chapter of the United Mine Workers of America) in 1633 by David Weber and Eric Flint
One of the greatest gifts of democracy is that bloody revolt and insurrection doesn’t happen as often as in more totalitarian forms of government. Now, one could argue otherwise given the history of democracy in Latin America and Africa, but looking under the surface of those situations invariably reveals entrenched elites ruling in true despotic fashion, regardless of the ostensible form of government. Like a pressure cooker with no release valve, the pressure of social injustice keeps building until the inevitable explosion. --->
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