Increasing freedom in the world decreases the death toll of its wars. Surely, whatever reduces and then finally ends the scourge of war in our history, without causing a greater evil, must be the greatest moral good. And this is freedom.

— Rudolph Rummel The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

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