It is better to offer no excuse
than a bad one.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
The check and balances system
Napoleon's Continental System was designed to destroy the British economy completely by blocking any trades from allies to Britain and even the neutral countries. Britian counter blocked and resulted in the Anglo-American War of 1812.
The political system that emerged was the rise of fascism. It is written at the ending of line 1 and beginning of line 2 (on the political right, fascism came out of the war).
<span>The Western tradition is indebted to Judeo-Christian formations
of the special dignity of human beings and the rights and responsibilities
which are theirs by virtue of that dignity. All human beings owe their lineage
to a set of common parents according to the Hebrew Bible. These parents, Adam
and Eve, were made in the image and likeness of their Creator (Gen. 1:27), and
thus all their progeny bear that image (i.e., the imago Dei). From these
beginnings we inherit the concept of human exceptionalism—the belief that human
beings are unique, possessors of inalienable rights, and ought to exercise
managerial stewardship over nature.</span>
