A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.