"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard Feynman
"You Yanks don't consult the wisdom of democracy; you enable mobs." - Australian planner
Sunday, January 18, 2026
Mark Twain's comment on current events.
“There must be two Americas: one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive’s new freedom away from him, and picks a quarrel with him with nothing to found it on; then kills him to get his land.” -Mark Twain, on the U.S.-Philippine War (although he could have said it about many other wars)
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