Orts #834

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
     — Thomas Paine (1737-1809)


Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President.
     — Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)


One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
  — Carl Sagan (1934-1996)


I have one wish for you, little man: that you will never be president of the United States.
     — Theodore Roosevelt, to his distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when the latter was five years old


So this is how liberty dies . . . with thunderous applause.
     — Princess Padmé Amidala, a character in Star Wars