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Concerns about the decline of liberty in our whole polity is what threatens all of the aspects of it, including democracy.

— Donald Kagan

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The peace does not keep itself, and though it may be intellectually unfashionable to say so, the world needs a policeman.

We are the product of Western civilization, so it’s necessary to understand yourself before you can understand anyone else.

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Seeing what Hitler and the Nazis had done, I knew there was real evil in the world, and after that, I couldn’t take pacifists seriously.

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