Dictatorship, past and present
“No power in executive hands can be too great, no discretion too absolute, at such moments as these. We need a dictator. Let lawyers talk when the world has time to hear them. Now let the sword do its work. Usurpations of power by the chief, for the preservation of the people from robbers and murderers, will be reckoned as genius and patriotism by all sensible men in the world now and by every historian that will judge the deed hereafter.” — Richmond Examiner, May 8, 1861
What was it William Faulkner said? “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
Conrad Bertz
Palatine
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