Dan

“He is a sensible man who does not grieve for what he has not, but enjoys what he has.”
― Democritus

“A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he must be ignorant and a rogue.”
― Aristophanes

“From 1966 to 1976 ... The primary cause in [the] decline in FBI counterespionage and counterintelligence cases was the ceaseless demand by Presidents Johnson and Nixon to focus on the political warfare against the American left.... - "Espionage Against the United States by American Citizens, 1947-2001, Defense Personnel Security Research Center, July 2002”
― Tim Weiner, Enemies: A History of the FBI

“In that old Potter's Shop I stood alone
with the clay Population round in Rows.

And strange to tell among the Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And suddenly one more impatient cried-
"Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?”
― Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward FitzGerald