“ One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready. ”
There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
~ Frank Herbert
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
