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“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
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“As a construct, history is too often revised to match contemporary views. It has been said that each generation must rewrite history in order to understand it. The opposite is true. Moderns revise history to make it palatable, not to understand it. Those who edit “history” to popular taste each decade will never understand the past—neither the horrors nor glories of which the human race is equally capable—and for that reason, they will fail to understand themselves.”
― Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
― Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.”
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Francisco’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Francisco’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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