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[T]he Confederacy was so entwined with the idea of preserving slavery that the flag, even today, can evoke racial polarization...

— Victor Davis Hanson America: One Nation, Indivisible (2015)

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There is no end of history. Instead, civilization is a constant fight to embrace what has worked for the common good through the ages—and to reject what in the past has failed abysmally.

The nature of man doesn’t change, and that’s reassuring, since we know the necessary conditions that can save him from himself.

Every problem has a resolution — but often not a good one.

Fundamentally Transformed (2016)

It is difficult to determine whether Georgians hated Sherman and his army as much as the Spartans despised Epaminondas and the Thebans. Both men had wrecked their centuries-old practice of apartheid in a matter of weeks. It is a dangerous and foolhardy thing for a slaveholding society to arouse a democracy of such men.

The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny (1999)

War itself is not a mere science but a more fickle sort of thing, often subject to fate or chance, being an entirely human enterprise...

A War Like No Other - How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (2005)

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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

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