France is the young boy of republics! Eager to start quick to finish! Nice to look at but no staying power....etc etc.The US constitution is overrated. America is a girlie Republic.
Men don't cry before a court if they want their constitution explained according to the latest fad. Real men simply make amendments. And really real men change the constitution altogether.
Of course, really hardy men don't even lower themselves to such lowly tasks as rewriting constitutions. They simply forge themselves a new Republic. Fifth amendment? Pft. We discuss Fifth Republics.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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