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When the Republic lost the ability to regulate the rewards given to political victors and the punishments inflicted on the losers of political conflicts, Roman politics became a zero-sum game in which the winner reaped massive rewards and
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“Socialism is bad,’ he said, ‘jingoism is worse, and the two combined in a kind of debased Italian Fascism is the worst creed ever designed by man.”
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
“Alexis de Tocqueville toured the United States in the early 1830s and famously proclaimed the emergence of Homo democraticus, a cheeky creature whose passion for equality and self-interest was tempered only by his ability to join fellow citizens in all manner of mutual associations for pragmatic benefit.”
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“When Marshall died in 1835, he and the Court he led had rebuked two presidents, Congress, and a dozen states and laid down principles of law and politics that still apply.”
― John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court
― John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court
“Sherman and his men revealed what intellectual historian Joseph Kett has described as a singular American ability to remain creatively insubordinate within large organizations and still survive, even thrive.”
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Magale Memorial Library
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The John F. Magale Memorial Library is a private/community library on the campus of Centenary College of Louisiana
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