ICH today
"Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror": Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it": Mohandas Gandhi
'In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave": John James Ingalls
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