<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # A civilization sufficiently confident to preserve... > A civilization sufficiently confident to preserve its accomplishments, sufficiently honest to preserve its crimes, sufficiently intelligent to distinguish the two and sufficiently free to allow people not yet born to reconsider the distinction. **Source:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-extraction-markup-20260922/postimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-reminder-links-repair-20260922/postimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-reminder-links-repair-20260922/preimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “A civilization sufficiently confident to preserve its accomplishments, sufficiently honest to preserve its crimes, sufficiently intelligent to distinguish the two and sufficiently free to allow people not yet born to reconsider the distinction.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-civilization-sufficiently-confident-born-reconsider-distinction ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->