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Cyrus the Great Day
"For the first time in recorded history, Cyrus proved that affording citizens certain God-given rights not only doesn't threaten government but empowers it."
"To understand this statement, you have to remember that before Cyrus, all
imperial governments had been sustained through fear, including the Egyptian
empire, the
Assyrian empire and the
Babylonian empire. Cyrus allowed some measure of freedom to his citizens
at enormous risk to his own power but soon realized that not only did this not
threaten his government but even made him stronger, which served as an important
precedent to future rulers as captured in a book by
Xenophon, titled 'The Cyropaedia.' This book gave future rulers, toying
with the idea of allowing citizens some basic freedoms, some peace of mind that
their sovereignty will not be compromised and that rebellion will not necessary
result from that freedom. This groundbreaking precedent was Cyrus's most
significant and lasting legacy."
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