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A quotation from Twain

Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly despotism would be the absolute perfect earthly government if the conditions were the same; namely the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life perpetual; but as a perishable, perfect man must die and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is the worst form that is possible.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”

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A quotation from Twain

Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly despotism would be the absolute perfect earthly government if the conditions were the same; namely the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life perpetual; but as a perishable, perfect man must die and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is the worst form that is possible.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”

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A quotation from Twain

Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly despotism would be the absolute perfect earthly government if the conditions were the same; namely the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life perpetual; but as a perishable, perfect man must die and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is the worst form that is possible.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”

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A quotation from Twain

Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly despotism would be the absolute perfect earthly government if the conditions were the same; namely the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life perpetual; but as a perishable, perfect man must die and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is the worst form that is possible.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”

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A quotation from Abigail Adams

I long to hear that you have declared an independancy — and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

Abigail Adams (1744-1818) American correspondent, First Lady (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-03-31) to John Adams

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A quotation from Abigail Adams

I long to hear that you have declared an independancy — and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

Abigail Adams (1744-1818) American correspondent, First Lady (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-03-31) to John Adams

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A quotation from Abigail Adams

I long to hear that you have declared an independancy — and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

Abigail Adams (1744-1818) American correspondent, First Lady (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-03-31) to John Adams

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A quotation from Abigail Adams

I long to hear that you have declared an independancy — and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

Abigail Adams (1744-1818) American correspondent, First Lady (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-03-31) to John Adams

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A quotation from Thomas Jefferson

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”

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A quotation from Thomas Jefferson

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”

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A quotation from Thomas Jefferson

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”

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A quotation from Thomas Jefferson

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”

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A quotation from Thomas Jefferson

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”

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A quotation from Twain

A strange thing, when one considers it: to wit, the world applies to Czar and System the same moral axioms that have vogue and acceptance in civilized countries! Because, in civilized countries, it is wrong to remove oppressors otherwise than by process of law, it is held that the same rule applies in Russia, where there is no such thing as law — except for our Family. Laws are merely restraints — they have no other function. In civilized countries they restrain all persons, and restrain them all alike, which is fair and righteous; but in Russia such laws as exist make an exception — our Family. We do as we please; we have done as we pleased for centuries. Our common trade has been crime, our common pastime murder, our common beverage blood — the blood of the nation. Upon our heads lie millions of murders. Yet the pious moralist says it is a crime to assassinate us. We and our uncles are a family of cobras set over a hundred and forty million rabbits, whom we torture and murder and feed upon all our days; yet the moralist urges that to kill us is a crime, not a duty.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905-02-02), “The Czar’s Soliloquy,” North American Review, Vol. 180, No. 580 (1905-03)

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A quotation from Twain

A strange thing, when one considers it: to wit, the world applies to Czar and System the same moral axioms that have vogue and acceptance in civilized countries! Because, in civilized countries, it is wrong to remove oppressors otherwise than by process of law, it is held that the same rule applies in Russia, where there is no such thing as law — except for our Family. Laws are merely restraints — they have no other function. In civilized countries they restrain all persons, and restrain them all alike, which is fair and righteous; but in Russia such laws as exist make an exception — our Family. We do as we please; we have done as we pleased for centuries. Our common trade has been crime, our common pastime murder, our common beverage blood — the blood of the nation. Upon our heads lie millions of murders. Yet the pious moralist says it is a crime to assassinate us. We and our uncles are a family of cobras set over a hundred and forty million rabbits, whom we torture and murder and feed upon all our days; yet the moralist urges that to kill us is a crime, not a duty.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905-02-02), “The Czar’s Soliloquy,” North American Review, Vol. 180, No. 580 (1905-03)

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A quotation from Twain

A strange thing, when one considers it: to wit, the world applies to Czar and System the same moral axioms that have vogue and acceptance in civilized countries! Because, in civilized countries, it is wrong to remove oppressors otherwise than by process of law, it is held that the same rule applies in Russia, where there is no such thing as law — except for our Family. Laws are merely restraints — they have no other function. In civilized countries they restrain all persons, and restrain them all alike, which is fair and righteous; but in Russia such laws as exist make an exception — our Family. We do as we please; we have done as we pleased for centuries. Our common trade has been crime, our common pastime murder, our common beverage blood — the blood of the nation. Upon our heads lie millions of murders. Yet the pious moralist says it is a crime to assassinate us. We and our uncles are a family of cobras set over a hundred and forty million rabbits, whom we torture and murder and feed upon all our days; yet the moralist urges that to kill us is a crime, not a duty.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905-02-02), “The Czar’s Soliloquy,” North American Review, Vol. 180, No. 580 (1905-03)

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A quotation from Twain

A strange thing, when one considers it: to wit, the world applies to Czar and System the same moral axioms that have vogue and acceptance in civilized countries! Because, in civilized countries, it is wrong to remove oppressors otherwise than by process of law, it is held that the same rule applies in Russia, where there is no such thing as law — except for our Family. Laws are merely restraints — they have no other function. In civilized countries they restrain all persons, and restrain them all alike, which is fair and righteous; but in Russia such laws as exist make an exception — our Family. We do as we please; we have done as we pleased for centuries. Our common trade has been crime, our common pastime murder, our common beverage blood — the blood of the nation. Upon our heads lie millions of murders. Yet the pious moralist says it is a crime to assassinate us. We and our uncles are a family of cobras set over a hundred and forty million rabbits, whom we torture and murder and feed upon all our days; yet the moralist urges that to kill us is a crime, not a duty.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905-02-02), “The Czar’s Soliloquy,” North American Review, Vol. 180, No. 580 (1905-03)

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A quotation from Montesquieu

It has eternally been observed that any man who has power is led to abuse it; he continues until he finds limits.
 
[C’est une expérience éternelle, que tout homme qui a du pouvoir est porté à en abuser; il va jusqu’à ce qu’il trouve des limites.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 11, ch. 4 (11.4) (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]

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A quotation from Montesquieu

It has eternally been observed that any man who has power is led to abuse it; he continues until he finds limits.
 
[C’est une expérience éternelle, que tout homme qui a du pouvoir est porté à en abuser; il va jusqu’à ce qu’il trouve des limites.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 11, ch. 4 (11.4) (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]

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A quotation from Montesquieu

It has eternally been observed that any man who has power is led to abuse it; he continues until he finds limits.
 
[C’est une expérience éternelle, que tout homme qui a du pouvoir est porté à en abuser; il va jusqu’à ce qu’il trouve des limites.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 11, ch. 4 (11.4) (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]

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A quotation from Montesquieu

It has eternally been observed that any man who has power is led to abuse it; he continues until he finds limits.
 
[C’est une expérience éternelle, que tout homme qui a du pouvoir est porté à en abuser; il va jusqu’à ce qu’il trouve des limites.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 11, ch. 4 (11.4) (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]

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A quotation from Montesquieu

It has eternally been observed that any man who has power is led to abuse it; he continues until he finds limits.
 
[C’est une expérience éternelle, que tout homme qui a du pouvoir est porté à en abuser; il va jusqu’à ce qu’il trouve des limites.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 11, ch. 4 (11.4) (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]

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#AbsolutePOWER corrupting absolutely. Or maybe just fucked-up persons in the first place.

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A quotation from Freeman Dyson

I felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it’s there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles — this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.

Freeman Dyson (1923-2020) English-American theoretical physicist, mathematician, futurist
In Jon Else, dir., The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb, Part 2 (1981)

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A quotation from Freeman Dyson

I felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it’s there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles — this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.

Freeman Dyson (1923-2020) English-American theoretical physicist, mathematician, futurist
In Jon Else, dir., The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb, Part 2 (1981)

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A quotation from Freeman Dyson

I felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it’s there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles — this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.

Freeman Dyson (1923-2020) English-American theoretical physicist, mathematician, futurist
In Jon Else, dir., The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb, Part 2 (1981)

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A quotation from Freeman Dyson

I felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it’s there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles — this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.

Freeman Dyson (1923-2020) English-American theoretical physicist, mathematician, futurist
In Jon Else, dir., The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb, Part 2 (1981)

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A quotation from Euripides

NURSE: Terrible is the temperament of royalty,
   Who are rarely controlled, always imperious;
   It is hard for them to give up their wrath.
   To get used to living like everybody else
   Is better.
 
[ΤΡΟΦΌΣ: δεινὰ τυράννων λήματα καί πως
   ὀλίγ᾽ ἀρχόμενοι, πολλὰ κρατοῦντες
   χαλεπῶς ὀργὰς μεταβάλλουσιν.
   τὸ γὰρ εἰθίσθαι ζῆν ἐπ᾽ ἴσοισιν
   κρεῖσσον.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 119ff (431 BC) [tr. Podlecki (1989)]

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A quotation from Euripides

NURSE: Terrible is the temperament of royalty,
   Who are rarely controlled, always imperious;
   It is hard for them to give up their wrath.
   To get used to living like everybody else
   Is better.
 
[ΤΡΟΦΌΣ: δεινὰ τυράννων λήματα καί πως
   ὀλίγ᾽ ἀρχόμενοι, πολλὰ κρατοῦντες
   χαλεπῶς ὀργὰς μεταβάλλουσιν.
   τὸ γὰρ εἰθίσθαι ζῆν ἐπ᾽ ἴσοισιν
   κρεῖσσον.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 119ff (431 BC) [tr. Podlecki (1989)]

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A quotation from Euripides

NURSE: Terrible is the temperament of royalty,
   Who are rarely controlled, always imperious;
   It is hard for them to give up their wrath.
   To get used to living like everybody else
   Is better.
 
[ΤΡΟΦΌΣ: δεινὰ τυράννων λήματα καί πως
   ὀλίγ᾽ ἀρχόμενοι, πολλὰ κρατοῦντες
   χαλεπῶς ὀργὰς μεταβάλλουσιν.
   τὸ γὰρ εἰθίσθαι ζῆν ἐπ᾽ ἴσοισιν
   κρεῖσσον.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 119ff (431 BC) [tr. Podlecki (1989)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/80529/

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A quotation from Euripides

NURSE: Terrible is the temperament of royalty,
   Who are rarely controlled, always imperious;
   It is hard for them to give up their wrath.
   To get used to living like everybody else
   Is better.
 
[ΤΡΟΦΌΣ: δεινὰ τυράννων λήματα καί πως
   ὀλίγ᾽ ἀρχόμενοι, πολλὰ κρατοῦντες
   χαλεπῶς ὀργὰς μεταβάλλουσιν.
   τὸ γὰρ εἰθίσθαι ζῆν ἐπ᾽ ἴσοισιν
   κρεῖσσον.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 119ff (431 BC) [tr. Podlecki (1989)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/80529/

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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

We hold that our loyalty is due solely to the American Republic, and to all our public servants exactly in proportion as they efficiently and faithfully serve the Republic. Our opponents, in flat contradiction of Lincoln’s position, hold that our loyalty is due to the President, not the country; to one man, the servant of the people, instead of to the people themselves. In practice they adopt the fetishism of all believers in absolutism; for every man who parrots the cry of “stand by the President,” without adding the proviso “so far as he serves the Republic” takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart Royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent freeman can take such an attitude.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1918-05), “Lincoln and Free Speech,” Metropolitan Magazine, Vol. 47, No. 6

More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7…

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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

We hold that our loyalty is due solely to the American Republic, and to all our public servants exactly in proportion as they efficiently and faithfully serve the Republic. Our opponents, in flat contradiction of Lincoln’s position, hold that our loyalty is due to the President, not the country; to one man, the servant of the people, instead of to the people themselves. In practice they adopt the fetishism of all believers in absolutism; for every man who parrots the cry of “stand by the President,” without adding the proviso “so far as he serves the Republic” takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart Royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent freeman can take such an attitude.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1918-05), “Lincoln and Free Speech,” Metropolitan Magazine, Vol. 47, No. 6

More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7…

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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

We hold that our loyalty is due solely to the American Republic, and to all our public servants exactly in proportion as they efficiently and faithfully serve the Republic. Our opponents, in flat contradiction of Lincoln’s position, hold that our loyalty is due to the President, not the country; to one man, the servant of the people, instead of to the people themselves. In practice they adopt the fetishism of all believers in absolutism; for every man who parrots the cry of “stand by the President,” without adding the proviso “so far as he serves the Republic” takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart Royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent freeman can take such an attitude.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1918-05), “Lincoln and Free Speech,” Metropolitan Magazine, Vol. 47, No. 6

More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7…

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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

We hold that our loyalty is due solely to the American Republic, and to all our public servants exactly in proportion as they efficiently and faithfully serve the Republic. Our opponents, in flat contradiction of Lincoln’s position, hold that our loyalty is due to the President, not the country; to one man, the servant of the people, instead of to the people themselves. In practice they adopt the fetishism of all believers in absolutism; for every man who parrots the cry of “stand by the President,” without adding the proviso “so far as he serves the Republic” takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart Royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent freeman can take such an attitude.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1918-05), “Lincoln and Free Speech,” Metropolitan Magazine, Vol. 47, No. 6

More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7…

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4. Retribution
Everything above in this section is necessary background to
frame the problem this President has with the First Amendment.
Where things run off the rails for him is his fixation with
“retribution.” “I am your retribution,” he thundered famously
while on the campaign trail. 59 Yet government retribution for
speech (precisely what has happened here) is directly forbidden
by the First Amendment. The President’s palpable misunderstanding that the government simply cannot seek
retribution for speech he disdains poses a great threat to
Americans’ freedom of speech. It is at this juncture that the
judiciary has robustly rebuffed the President and his
administration.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#Trump #treason #SCOTUS #AbsolutePower #FreeSpeech #Constitution #coup

4. Retribution
Everything above in this section is necessary background to
frame the problem this President has with the First Amendment.
Where things run off the rails for him is his fixation with
“retribution.” “I am your retribution,” he thundered famously
while on the campaign trail. 59 Yet government retribution for
speech (precisely what has happened here) is directly forbidden
by the First Amendment. The President’s palpable misunderstanding that the government simply cannot seek
retribution for speech he disdains poses a great threat to
Americans’ freedom of speech. It is at this juncture that the
judiciary has robustly rebuffed the President and his
administration.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#Trump #treason #SCOTUS #AbsolutePower #FreeSpeech #Constitution #coup

4. Retribution
Everything above in this section is necessary background to
frame the problem this President has with the First Amendment.
Where things run off the rails for him is his fixation with
“retribution.” “I am your retribution,” he thundered famously
while on the campaign trail. 59 Yet government retribution for
speech (precisely what has happened here) is directly forbidden
by the First Amendment. The President’s palpable misunderstanding that the government simply cannot seek
retribution for speech he disdains poses a great threat to
Americans’ freedom of speech. It is at this juncture that the
judiciary has robustly rebuffed the President and his
administration.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#Trump #treason #SCOTUS #AbsolutePower #FreeSpeech #Constitution #coup

4. Retribution
Everything above in this section is necessary background to
frame the problem this President has with the First Amendment.
Where things run off the rails for him is his fixation with
“retribution.” “I am your retribution,” he thundered famously
while on the campaign trail. 59 Yet government retribution for
speech (precisely what has happened here) is directly forbidden
by the First Amendment. The President’s palpable misunderstanding that the government simply cannot seek
retribution for speech he disdains poses a great threat to
Americans’ freedom of speech. It is at this juncture that the
judiciary has robustly rebuffed the President and his
administration.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#Trump #treason #SCOTUS #AbsolutePower #FreeSpeech #Constitution #coup

3. . . . and he keeps bullying on.
Whether it’s social media, 56 print, or television, President
Trump is the master communicator of our time. His speech
dominates today’s American idiom. Indeed, it may be said to
define it. It is triumphal, transactional, imperative,
bellicose, and coarse. It seeks to persuade –- not through
marshaling data driven evidence, science, or moral suasion, but
through power.
While the President naturally seeks warm cheering and
gladsome, welcoming acceptance of his views, in the real world
he’ll settle for sullen silence and obedience. What he will not
countenance is dissent or disagreement. He recognizes, of
course, that there are legislative and judicial branches to our
government, co-equal even to a unitary Presidency. 57 He meets
dissent from his orders in those other two branches by
demonizing and disparaging the speakers, sometimes descending to
personal vitriol. 58

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

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3. . . . and he keeps bullying on.
Whether it’s social media, 56 print, or television, President
Trump is the master communicator of our time. His speech
dominates today’s American idiom. Indeed, it may be said to
define it. It is triumphal, transactional, imperative,
bellicose, and coarse. It seeks to persuade –- not through
marshaling data driven evidence, science, or moral suasion, but
through power.
While the President naturally seeks warm cheering and
gladsome, welcoming acceptance of his views, in the real world
he’ll settle for sullen silence and obedience. What he will not
countenance is dissent or disagreement. He recognizes, of
course, that there are legislative and judicial branches to our
government, co-equal even to a unitary Presidency. 57 He meets
dissent from his orders in those other two branches by
demonizing and disparaging the speakers, sometimes descending to
personal vitriol. 58

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#AbsolutePower #SCOTUS #treason #fascism #Trump #Republicans #Constitution

3. . . . and he keeps bullying on.
Whether it’s social media, 56 print, or television, President
Trump is the master communicator of our time. His speech
dominates today’s American idiom. Indeed, it may be said to
define it. It is triumphal, transactional, imperative,
bellicose, and coarse. It seeks to persuade –- not through
marshaling data driven evidence, science, or moral suasion, but
through power.
While the President naturally seeks warm cheering and
gladsome, welcoming acceptance of his views, in the real world
he’ll settle for sullen silence and obedience. What he will not
countenance is dissent or disagreement. He recognizes, of
course, that there are legislative and judicial branches to our
government, co-equal even to a unitary Presidency. 57 He meets
dissent from his orders in those other two branches by
demonizing and disparaging the speakers, sometimes descending to
personal vitriol. 58

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#AbsolutePower #SCOTUS #treason #fascism #Trump #Republicans #Constitution

3. . . . and he keeps bullying on.
Whether it’s social media, 56 print, or television, President
Trump is the master communicator of our time. His speech
dominates today’s American idiom. Indeed, it may be said to
define it. It is triumphal, transactional, imperative,
bellicose, and coarse. It seeks to persuade –- not through
marshaling data driven evidence, science, or moral suasion, but
through power.
While the President naturally seeks warm cheering and
gladsome, welcoming acceptance of his views, in the real world
he’ll settle for sullen silence and obedience. What he will not
countenance is dissent or disagreement. He recognizes, of
course, that there are legislative and judicial branches to our
government, co-equal even to a unitary Presidency. 57 He meets
dissent from his orders in those other two branches by
demonizing and disparaging the speakers, sometimes descending to
personal vitriol. 58

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#AbsolutePower #SCOTUS #treason #fascism #Trump #Republicans #Constitution

51 The federal courts themselves are complicit in chilling
would-be litigants. It is not that we are less than
scrupulously impartial. We demonstrate our judicial
independence and utter impartiality every day whatever the
personal cost. It is, rather that in our effort to be entirely
fair, thorough, and transparent, we are slow, ponderously slow.
This in turn means we are expensive, crushingly so for an
individual litigant. Frequently, the threat of federal civil
litigation, however frivolous, is enough severely to harass an
individual and cause his submission.
The flurry of activity on the Supreme Court’s emergency
docket is itself a tacit admission that, when dealing with an
administration that is admittedly seeking to “flood the zone,”
it needs to intervene to correct rulings that, if not
immediately remedied, will remain in effect far too long.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

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51 The federal courts themselves are complicit in chilling
would-be litigants. It is not that we are less than
scrupulously impartial. We demonstrate our judicial
independence and utter impartiality every day whatever the
personal cost. It is, rather that in our effort to be entirely
fair, thorough, and transparent, we are slow, ponderously slow.
This in turn means we are expensive, crushingly so for an
individual litigant. Frequently, the threat of federal civil
litigation, however frivolous, is enough severely to harass an
individual and cause his submission.
The flurry of activity on the Supreme Court’s emergency
docket is itself a tacit admission that, when dealing with an
administration that is admittedly seeking to “flood the zone,”
it needs to intervene to correct rulings that, if not
immediately remedied, will remain in effect far too long.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

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51 The federal courts themselves are complicit in chilling
would-be litigants. It is not that we are less than
scrupulously impartial. We demonstrate our judicial
independence and utter impartiality every day whatever the
personal cost. It is, rather that in our effort to be entirely
fair, thorough, and transparent, we are slow, ponderously slow.
This in turn means we are expensive, crushingly so for an
individual litigant. Frequently, the threat of federal civil
litigation, however frivolous, is enough severely to harass an
individual and cause his submission.
The flurry of activity on the Supreme Court’s emergency
docket is itself a tacit admission that, when dealing with an
administration that is admittedly seeking to “flood the zone,”
it needs to intervene to correct rulings that, if not
immediately remedied, will remain in effect far too long.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#USpolitics #AbsolutePower #SCOTUS #fascism #Trump #treason #courts #litigation

51 The federal courts themselves are complicit in chilling
would-be litigants. It is not that we are less than
scrupulously impartial. We demonstrate our judicial
independence and utter impartiality every day whatever the
personal cost. It is, rather that in our effort to be entirely
fair, thorough, and transparent, we are slow, ponderously slow.
This in turn means we are expensive, crushingly so for an
individual litigant. Frequently, the threat of federal civil
litigation, however frivolous, is enough severely to harass an
individual and cause his submission.
The flurry of activity on the Supreme Court’s emergency
docket is itself a tacit admission that, when dealing with an
administration that is admittedly seeking to “flood the zone,”
it needs to intervene to correct rulings that, if not
immediately remedied, will remain in effect far too long.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#USpolitics #AbsolutePower #SCOTUS #fascism #Trump #treason #courts #litigation

Small wonder then that our bastions of independent unbiased
free speech –- those entities we once thought unassailable –-
have proven all too often to have only Quaker guns. 52 Behold
President Trump’s successes in limiting free speech -– law firms
cower, 53 institutional leaders in higher education meekly appease
the President, 54 media outlets from huge conglomerates to small
niche magazines mind the bottom line rather than the ethics of
journalism. 55

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

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Small wonder then that our bastions of independent unbiased
free speech –- those entities we once thought unassailable –-
have proven all too often to have only Quaker guns. 52 Behold
President Trump’s successes in limiting free speech -– law firms
cower, 53 institutional leaders in higher education meekly appease
the President, 54 media outlets from huge conglomerates to small
niche magazines mind the bottom line rather than the ethics of
journalism. 55

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#AbsolutePower #SCOTUS #treason #coup #Trump #Republicans #media #MSM #fascism #USpolitics

Small wonder then that our bastions of independent unbiased
free speech –- those entities we once thought unassailable –-
have proven all too often to have only Quaker guns. 52 Behold
President Trump’s successes in limiting free speech -– law firms
cower, 53 institutional leaders in higher education meekly appease
the President, 54 media outlets from huge conglomerates to small
niche magazines mind the bottom line rather than the ethics of
journalism. 55

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#AbsolutePower #SCOTUS #treason #coup #Trump #Republicans #media #MSM #fascism #USpolitics

Small wonder then that our bastions of independent unbiased
free speech –- those entities we once thought unassailable –-
have proven all too often to have only Quaker guns. 52 Behold
President Trump’s successes in limiting free speech -– law firms
cower, 53 institutional leaders in higher education meekly appease
the President, 54 media outlets from huge conglomerates to small
niche magazines mind the bottom line rather than the ethics of
journalism. 55

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#AbsolutePower #SCOTUS #treason #coup #Trump #Republicans #media #MSM #fascism #USpolitics

B. President Donald J. Trump
“He seems to be winning. He ignores everything and keeps
bullying ahead.”
Half admiring, half quizzical, a very wise woman –- my wife
-- made this comment about our 47th President in an entirely
different context. 48 I quote it here because it so perfectly
captures the public persona of President Trump, especially as it
pertains to the issues presented in this case. A brief
explanation will suffice.

1. He seems to be winning.
Triumphalism is the very essence of the Trump brand. Often
this is naught but hollow bragging: “my perfect administration,”
wearing a red baseball cap in the presidential oval office
emblazoned “Trump Was Right About Everything,” or most recently
depicting himself as an officer in the First Cavalry Division. 49
Unfortunately, this tends to obscure the very real and sweeping
changes President Trump has wrought in his first year in office. If change is a mark of success, President Trump is the most
successful president in history.

2. He ignores everything . . .
This is indubitably true. The Constitution, our civil
laws, regulations, mores, customs, practices, courtesies -- all
of it; the President simply ignores it all when he takes it into
his head to act. A broad swath of our people find this
refreshing in what they may feel is an over regulated society.
After all, lawyers seem to have a penchant for telling you what
you can’t do. President Trump simply ignores them.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#AbsolutePower #SCOTUS #coup #Trump #Republicans #treason #fascism

B. President Donald J. Trump
“He seems to be winning. He ignores everything and keeps
bullying ahead.”
Half admiring, half quizzical, a very wise woman –- my wife
-- made this comment about our 47th President in an entirely
different context. 48 I quote it here because it so perfectly
captures the public persona of President Trump, especially as it
pertains to the issues presented in this case. A brief
explanation will suffice.

1. He seems to be winning.
Triumphalism is the very essence of the Trump brand. Often
this is naught but hollow bragging: “my perfect administration,”
wearing a red baseball cap in the presidential oval office
emblazoned “Trump Was Right About Everything,” or most recently
depicting himself as an officer in the First Cavalry Division. 49
Unfortunately, this tends to obscure the very real and sweeping
changes President Trump has wrought in his first year in office. If change is a mark of success, President Trump is the most
successful president in history.

2. He ignores everything . . .
This is indubitably true. The Constitution, our civil
laws, regulations, mores, customs, practices, courtesies -- all
of it; the President simply ignores it all when he takes it into
his head to act. A broad swath of our people find this
refreshing in what they may feel is an over regulated society.
After all, lawyers seem to have a penchant for telling you what
you can’t do. President Trump simply ignores them.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#AbsolutePower #SCOTUS #coup #Trump #Republicans #treason #fascism

B. President Donald J. Trump
“He seems to be winning. He ignores everything and keeps
bullying ahead.”
Half admiring, half quizzical, a very wise woman –- my wife
-- made this comment about our 47th President in an entirely
different context. 48 I quote it here because it so perfectly
captures the public persona of President Trump, especially as it
pertains to the issues presented in this case. A brief
explanation will suffice.

1. He seems to be winning.
Triumphalism is the very essence of the Trump brand. Often
this is naught but hollow bragging: “my perfect administration,”
wearing a red baseball cap in the presidential oval office
emblazoned “Trump Was Right About Everything,” or most recently
depicting himself as an officer in the First Cavalry Division. 49
Unfortunately, this tends to obscure the very real and sweeping
changes President Trump has wrought in his first year in office. If change is a mark of success, President Trump is the most
successful president in history.

2. He ignores everything . . .
This is indubitably true. The Constitution, our civil
laws, regulations, mores, customs, practices, courtesies -- all
of it; the President simply ignores it all when he takes it into
his head to act. A broad swath of our people find this
refreshing in what they may feel is an over regulated society.
After all, lawyers seem to have a penchant for telling you what
you can’t do. President Trump simply ignores them.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#AbsolutePower #SCOTUS #coup #Trump #Republicans #treason #fascism

B. President Donald J. Trump
“He seems to be winning. He ignores everything and keeps
bullying ahead.”
Half admiring, half quizzical, a very wise woman –- my wife
-- made this comment about our 47th President in an entirely
different context. 48 I quote it here because it so perfectly
captures the public persona of President Trump, especially as it
pertains to the issues presented in this case. A brief
explanation will suffice.

1. He seems to be winning.
Triumphalism is the very essence of the Trump brand. Often
this is naught but hollow bragging: “my perfect administration,”
wearing a red baseball cap in the presidential oval office
emblazoned “Trump Was Right About Everything,” or most recently
depicting himself as an officer in the First Cavalry Division. 49
Unfortunately, this tends to obscure the very real and sweeping
changes President Trump has wrought in his first year in office. If change is a mark of success, President Trump is the most
successful president in history.

2. He ignores everything . . .
This is indubitably true. The Constitution, our civil
laws, regulations, mores, customs, practices, courtesies -- all
of it; the President simply ignores it all when he takes it into
his head to act. A broad swath of our people find this
refreshing in what they may feel is an over regulated society.
After all, lawyers seem to have a penchant for telling you what
you can’t do. President Trump simply ignores them.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#AbsolutePower #SCOTUS #coup #Trump #Republicans #treason #fascism

#Fucker #FUCKICE #FUCKtrump This is what #AbsolutePower does to #WEAKmen. And a few women.

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A quotation from Eric Hoffer

Absolute power is partial to simplicity. It wants simple problems, simple solutions, simple definitions. It sees in complication a product of weakness — the torturous path compromise must follow.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 88 (1955)

More info about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/79289/

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A quotation from Eric Hoffer

Absolute power is partial to simplicity. It wants simple problems, simple solutions, simple definitions. It sees in complication a product of weakness — the torturous path compromise must follow.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 88 (1955)

More info about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/79289/

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A quotation from Eric Hoffer

Absolute power is partial to simplicity. It wants simple problems, simple solutions, simple definitions. It sees in complication a product of weakness — the torturous path compromise must follow.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 88 (1955)

More info about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/79289/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #absolutepower #complexity #complication #compromise #nuance #power #reality #simplicity #weakness

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

Absolute power is partial to simplicity. It wants simple problems, simple solutions, simple definitions. It sees in complication a product of weakness — the torturous path compromise must follow.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 88 (1955)

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