Tyranny, sir.

The use of tyranny in American political life.

Such as?

Maybe...

Coolidge breaking up the Boston police strike,

Roosevelt putting Japanese-Americans into concentration camps...

You might consider the McCarthy business?

- Sir? - McCarthy.

Senator from Wisconsin? Ran a series of purges in the '50s?

Yes, I'm aware of that, sir. I was planning a chapter on him.

A chapter, I see. Yes, interesting.

Well, you four have the dubious honour

of having been picked from over 200 applicants for this seminar.

There's a shortage of natural resources, breathable air and adequate claret,

but there's no shortage of historians.

We grind you out like link sausages.

It's called progress.

Manufactured doctorates is called progress.

I say, "Let us hush this cry of progress till 10,000 years have passed."

That's a quote. Who said that?