"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

Salvor Hardin

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

Hannah Arendt

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

Hannah Arendt

"Authoritarian regimes - and the militias and security agencies that buttress them - rely on instilling fear in their subjects. They rule by enforcing conformity and obedience through terror ... "

Elizabeth Tsurkov

"The entire Trump project - and to a larger extent the MAGA movement"is at its core an exercise in collective delusion. The whole enterprise rests on Americans rejecting the very facts staring them in the face."

Janna Brancolini

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

Galileo Galilei, astronomer and physicist, 1564 -1642

"We believe that basic to governmental integrity are unimpeachable ethical standards and irreproachable personal conduct by all people in government. We shall continue our insistence on honesty as an indispensable requirement of public service. We shall continue to root out corruption whenever and wherever it appears."

Republican Party Platform of 1956