“If the world is against the truth, then I am against the world.”
— St. Athanasius of Alexandria

Quote of the day…
When exposing a crime is treated the same as committing a crime, you are ruled by criminals.

“Harry, look at me. You’re trying to tell me you fucked up without sounding stupid, and that’s hard to do.”
— Chili Palmer, Get Shorty

“Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a Democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that Democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than Aristocracy or Monarchy. It is not true in fact and no where appears in history. Those…[Read more]

“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”
— Josef Mengele

“Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn’t already have.”
— America

“To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”
— Tacitus

“Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche

“That the reigns of good princes have been always most dangerous to the liberties of their people: for when their successors, managing the government with different thoughts, would draw the actions of those good rulers into precedent, and make them the standard of their prerogative, as if what had been done only for the good of the people was a…[Read more]

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.”

— misattributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler – Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler#Misattributed

The earliest known attribution of this quote was October…[Read more]

“Never in my whole life did I swear allegiance to him.”
— William Wallace

“Economy is a good servant, but a bad master.”
— Russian proverb

“Four hostile newspapers are more to fear than a thousand bayonets.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte

“He who knows not another language, knows not his own.”
— Goethe

(“Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.”)

Government Is Like Fire, a Dangerous Servant and a Fearful Master – Quote Investigator
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/05/26/fire-servant/

I try to never use a quote that I cannot cite and/or source. Here is one I hear often, but refuse to use myself…
In a Time of Universal Deceit — Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act – Quote Investigator
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/24/truth-revolutionary/

“A coward, whose fears are easily awakened, readily assents to every account of danger he meets with; as a person of a sorrowful and melancholy disposition is very credulous of everything, that nourishes his prevailing passion.”
— David Hume

“If there’s one thing worse than doing nothing, it’s doing bad and feeling good about it… It’s all about symbolism over substance.”
— Joel Salatin

“You’ll assure me… What good’s your assurance when my veins are filled with your damn juice?”
— John Bernard Books, The Shootist