Sir John A. MacDonald decolonized and decapitated - a tweet

 

History is after all only a pack of tricks we play on the dead.[1] 

       - Voltaire

 

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[1] Quoted in Carl L. Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers, 2^nd ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), p. 43.  First published in 1932.