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"It does not take a majority to prevail...but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
Samuel Adams
I bought a book as a kid, I must have been nine or ten, and I was with my dad in a bookstore
in San Francisco. The book was Volume Four of a history of Rome, "Roman Supremacy," published
in 1939.
The Oxford professor, Hugh Last, wrote a chapter on, "A Roman Citizen Surveys The World," and
concludes with these words.
He's summing up the decline of the Empire and some lessons to draw. "Barbarian
attacks on the frontiers and a consequent increase in the tax-gatherer's demands
forced the emperors' hands to measures which in the end were disastrous. But from
the tale there emerge two lessons which are clear..."
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