Most of all, it was born so a bunch of rich white landowners could be in charge and no one else could tell them what to do. And it was born on the graves of a lot of poor white people who thought they might get to be those guys someday.

America was born to ensure the South could keep slavery, as Britian outlawed it. It was born to allow settlers to keep pushing west, to keep pushing Native Americans off their lands, which the British were forbidding.

"Leverage points are not all in high office. They are often at economic or communications centers and unless you know this, high office is useless. Even lieutenants can alter our course. Not by changing reports, but by burying unwanted orders."