A correlation to the project for new American century   Their view is like Athens during the Peloponnesian war  merely a democratic empire exercising undemocractic and antifreedom methods upon the world  They would in essence be no more then a tyrant on a larger scale  A tyrant at first claims to protect justice and be honest but in the end power devours their true ways and they need to violate others to maintain power  Another example Herodotus quoted from the Perseus project on line  XCVI All of those on the mainland were now free men but they came to be ruled by monarchs again as I will now relate There was among the Medes a clever man called Deioces he was the son of Phraortes  Deioces was infatuated with sovereignty and so he set about gaining it Already a notable man in his own town one of the many towns into which Media was divided he began to profess and practice justice more constantly and zealously than ever and he did this even though there was much lawlessness throughout the land of Media and though he knew that injustice is always the enemy of justice Then the Medes of the same town seeing his behavior chose him to be their judge and he for he coveted sovereign power was honest and just  By acting so he won no small praise from his fellow townsmen to such an extent that when the men of the other towns learned that Deioces alone gave fair judgments having before suffered from unjust decisions they came often and gladly to plead before Deioces and at last they would submit to no arbitration but his    XCVII The number of those who came grew ever greater for they heard that each case turned out in accord with the truth Then Deioces seeing that everything now depended on him would not sit in his former seat of judgment and said he would give no more decisions for it was of no advantage to him he said to leave his own business and spend all day judging the cases of his neighbors  This caused robbery and lawlessness to increase greatly in the towns and gathering together the Medes conferred about their present affairs and said here as I suppose the main speakers were Deioces friends  Since we cannot go on living in the present way in the land come let us set up a king over us in this way the land will be well governed and we ourselves shall attend to our business and not be routed by lawlessness With such words they persuaded themselves to be ruled by a king  XCVIII The question was at once propounded Whom should they make king Then every man was loud in putting Deioces forward and praising Deioces until they agreed that he should be their king  He ordered them to build him houses worthy of his royal power and strengthen him with a bodyguard The Medes did so They built him a big and strong house wherever in the land he indicated to them and let him choose a bodyguard out of all the Medes  And having obtained power he forced the Medes to build him one city and to fortify and care for this more strongly than all the rest The Medes did this for him too So he built the big and strong walls one standing inside the next in circles which are now called Ecbatana  This fortress is so designed that each circle of walls is higher than the next outer circle by no more than the height of its battlements to which plan the site itself on a hill in the plain contributes somewhat but chiefly it was accomplished by skill  There are seven circles in all within the innermost circle are the palace and the treasuries and the longest wall is about the length of the wall that surrounds the city of Athens The battlements of the first circle are white of the second black of the third circle purple of the fourth blue and of the fifth orange  thus the battlements of five circles are painted with colors and the battlements of the last two circles are coated the one with silver and the other with gold  XCIX Deioces built these walls for himself and around his own quarters and he ordered the people to dwell outside the wall And when it was all built Deioces was first to establish the rule that no one should come into the presence of the king but everything should be done by means of messengers that the king should be seen by no one and moreover that it should be a disgrace for anyone to laugh or to spit in his presence  He was careful to hedge himself with all this so that the men of his own age who had been brought up with him and were as nobly born as he and his equals in courage instead of seeing him and being upset and perhaps moved to plot against him might by reason of not seeing him believe him to be different   C When he had made these arrangements and strengthened himself with sovereign power he was a hard man in the protection of justice They would write down their