Loyalist № 15. The Framers believed that regular reviews would guard against military overreach. Unlike Britain – where oversight grew out of war, oppression, and hard-won tradition – America built its safeguards on reason alone. But history suggests that civic memory, not argument, is the most enduring foundation of liberty.
Loyalist № 12. What began with Lincoln as a reluctant claim of necessity has become a near-permanent feature of executive power in the United States. In the name of liberty, Americans have surrendered many of the very safeguards meant to protect it – and in doing so, invited the rise of presidential power without restraint.
Loyalist № 5. The United States has long imagined itself the “indispensable nation,” a force for a rational global democratic order. Yet from Wounded Knee to Iraq, history shows a different pattern – one of unrestrained power, failed principles, and abandoned allies. Whether the myth was ever a force for good, the world may now be better off without it.