The Year in Rebuke

Poster Art for the movie The Man Who Would Be King. Source: Allied Artists – IMPAwards – Fair Use

[M]any have mistaken the force of arms for the consent of the people, and reckon conquest as one of the originals of government. But conquest is as far from setting up any government as demolishing a house is from building a new one in the place. Indeed, it often makes way for a new frame of a commonwealth by destroying the former; but, without the consent of the people, can never erect a new one.