"In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to
observe the law scrupulously . . . If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds
contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites
anarchy."

Justice Louis Brandeis Olmstead v. United States (1928)

"All administrations sometimes hide, shade or slant the truth-and occasionally lie outright. The present administration is different in that it lies regularly, blatantly, heedlessly."

Richard Primus

So we're paying billions so we can pollute more and speed climate change.

"The message I have for climate deniers is this: you are endangering humankind. It is time for climate deniers to face reality, because the body of evidence is overwhelming and the world's leading scientists agree. Wishing that climate change will go away by clinging to a tiny minority view is not a policy, it is a fantasy. Problems do not go away by pretending they do not exist."
Senator Barbara Boxer

A galleon would make about as much sense as the "battleship." There's a reason none have been built for over 80 years.

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule in not the convinced Nazi or dedicated Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."

Hannah Arendt "Origins of Totalitarianism.