Government is Incomplete Conquest

... 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 ... ..., derived from both the Feudal aristocracy and from the rising elites of trade and commerce started out adamantly opposed to democracy. They feared and resisted extension of the franchise, and democratization more generally. Most of the Framers of the ...