Government is Incomplete Conquest

... the terms of the contract. The victors, that is the thugs, emerged cleansed and sanctified as the feudal aristocracy. When Thomas Hobbes grounded his theory of government in the consent of free individuals born with inalienable rights, he didn't ... ... 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 ...