John Locke: Last time you asked me who judges whether the executive has broken his trust, and I intend to answer you fully today.Thomas Hobbes: I have been waiting with the patience of a man who…
Thomas Hobbes: The governor of Illinois believes his objection matters more than order itself.John Locke: The people never consented to soldiers patrolling their own streets.Thomas Hobbes: Consent is…
Thomas Jefferson: Last time, Alexander admitted neither of us holds the full ledger. Today I intend to show what the missing pages probably say.Alexander Hamilton: Last time, Thomas admitted hypocrisy…
Thomas Jefferson: Alexander, a company just told an entire Georgia county to keep its mouth shut about a data center.Alexander Hamilton: And the county agreed, Thomas, because competent men understand…
Napoleon: We left off with you accusing an entire American administration of searching for an off ramp, Carl, as though wanting peace were somehow a scandal.Carl von Clausewitz: Wanting peace is not…
Napoleon: Five months of fighting, and the man who studied my downfall for a living wants to lecture me about when a war is finished.Carl von Clausewitz: I did not study your downfall, Napoleon, I…
Niccolo Machiavelli: Even the most centralized machine eventually runs straight into the limits of one man’s private conscience.Alexis de Tocqueville: And today we finally watch that conscience…
Niccolo Machiavelli: The same centralizing hand that ran a war then went on to run an entire hemisphere’s development.Alexis de Tocqueville: And today we discover what happens when one distant office…
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Herbert Spencer: Tonight a man who spent his life trading principles for favors attempts to explain why my party’s three percent is somehow worse than his zero percent of an independent…