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On ancient Rome, America and 1st Amendment
America 2013 stands at the precipice of human history. Will Americans follow the progressive road to social, economic and moral perdition like their cousins in Europe have been doing since 1900, and increasingly since post-World War II, by embracing a seductive, gradual form of Marxism called “Fabian Socialism”? A “moral decay” is how Gibbon describes the fall of the longest-existing empire known to humanity. As it was with ancient Rome, so shall it be with America?
On Edward Gibbon: History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, Part I
History, the final judge of our deeds. ~ JFK [A]s long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. ~ Gibbon Biography of Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) was an English historian […]
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