Balance Quotes

“A Swedish ambassador to the United States joked that nobody in America believes him when he says his country isn't socialist anymore. Liberals still refer to it as a role model, conservatives as a cautionary tale, but it is neither”
― Tim Kane, Balance: The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America

“Imagine our challenge in dissecting the fall of Rome as that of an historian two thousand years in the future, after a third millenium of dark ages has ravaged most evidence. Will they speak of the American troops of Petraeus and Eisenhower as if they were the same army? Will they smear together the rule of George Washington and George W. Bush and some other President George circa 2180 as if they were roughly the same executives?”
― Tim Kane, Balance: The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America