Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Statesmen

With the rise of the state, statesmen became possible -- men whose vision embraced truly grand adventures and enterprises in exploitation, oppression, plunder, and mass mayhem.

-- Robert Higgs (1944-), American economic historian and economist, The State -- Crown Jewel of Human Social Organization, 4 April 2013

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