• We have now done what the Romans did when they started to commit suicide. We have shifted from an army of citizens to an army of mercenaries...

  Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)

  Carroll Quigley
  American historian and theorist
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1. mercenaries
2. suicide
3. shifted

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