“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
— Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio

“Outside of the killings, D.C. has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.”
— Marion Barry, Mayor of the District of Columbia, 1989 (3rd term)

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”
— attributed to Jefferson; may have originated with Franklin

Personal Seal | Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/personal-seal

“The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you.”
— George Carlin

When you cut out a man’s tongue you don’t prove him wrong, you only tell the world you are afraid of what he might say.

“My rights don’t end where public fears begin.”
— Brian Young

“KEEP CALM and RETURN FIRE”
— Brian Young

When you stand for everything, you stand for nothing.

“The only way to stop playing a game is to stop.”
— Eric Berne, Games People Play

“The Lord giveth increase, but man devised credit.”

“The general shape of the universal delusion may be indicated by three of its familiar features:
First, the idea that the panacea for debt is credit.
Second, a social and political doctrine, now widely accepted, beginning with the premise that people are entitled to certain betterments of life.…[Read more]

They came first for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.
T…[Read more]

“For no people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.”
— Samuel Adams, Letter to James Warren, 1775

“But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one’s deepest as well as one’s most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just…[Read more]

“Though the name of liberty delights the ear, and tickles the fond pride of man, it is a jewel much oftener the play-thing of his imagination than a possession of real stability; it may be acquired to-day in all the triumph of independent feelings, but perhaps to-morrow the world may be convinced, that mankind knows not how to make a proper use of…[Read more]

Party Slogans:

Pregnancy Kills
Abortion Saves Lives
— New York Times, 2019

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
— Ministry of Truth, 1984

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
— Margaret Thatcher

You can’t see the picture if you’re in the frame.

“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”