Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.
My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
You don’t pay back, you pay forward.
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.