Government is Incomplete Conquest

... Foundations of legitimacy have varied greatly across the many kinds of regimes that have existed throughout history. Foundations of legitimacy change, sometimes slowly and imperceptibly. It is instructive that the monarchs who established modern centralized ... ... fact, many of the leaders of both Israel and Fatah started out as terrorists, later transformed into peace-loving statesmen. Edmund Burke noted that it is best to draw "a secret veil...over the beginnings of all governments," and not dwell too ...