First known example of political correctness was Re:

BP Jonsson scripsit:

> Not at all the first known example.  The one in the sig below is even from
> Roman times!
>
> For the Latin challenged it means "They make a wilderness and call it peace".
I don't think that counts.  It is the sarcastic comment of a single man,
not an official pronouncement.  It's a speech by Galgacus the Briton:

"Whenever I consider the origin of this war and the necessities of
our position, I have a sure confidence that this day, and this union
of yours, will be the beginning of freedom to the whole of Britain. To
all of us slavery is a thing unknown; there are no lands beyond us, and
even the sea is not safe, menaced as we are by a Roman fleet. And thus
in war and battle, in which the brave find glory, even the coward will
find safety. Former contests, in which, with varying fortune, the Romans
were resisted, still left in us a last hope of succour, inasmuch as being
the most renowned nation of Britain, dwelling in the very heart of the
country, and out of sight of the shores of the conquered, we could keep
even our eyes unpolluted by the contagion of slavery. To us who dwell on
the uttermost confines of the earth and of freedom, this remote sanctuary
of Britain's glory has up to this time been a defence. Now, however,
the furthest limits of Britain are thrown open, and the unknown always
passes for the marvellous. But there are no tribes beyond us, nothing
indeed but waves and rocks, and the yet more terrible Romans, from whose
oppression escape is vainly sought by obedience and submission. Robbers
of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they
rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor,
they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to
satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty
and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of
empire; they make a solitude and call it peace."

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