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"Liberal democracy is as brief as a bubble. Now and then history treats us to an interval of freedom and civilization and we make much of it.

We forget... that as a species we are generally close to the "state of nature," as Thomas Hobbes described it—a nasty, brutish, pitiless condition in which men are too fearful of death to give much thought to freedom."