The shadow of tyranny seldom announces itself with marching boots…at first ……

Rather, it begins with the ruler who delights in applause more than in law, and who mistakes personal will for public right. I have seen that play before, and it ends badly for liberty.

This is bluster, not leadership. It is the speech of a man who has mistaken insult for influence.
One cannot hope to rally allies by spitting in their faces.

Even when I stood in that body to denounce tyranny, I clothed my reproach in the garb of warning and appeal, not in vulgar derision.”

The Kremlin will send ten thousand men into the fire for a single mile of ground, and when half are slain, they call it a good day’s work.

Their rulers think nothing of squandering men as though they were musket balls.

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Freedom is eroded one concession at a time.

But each concession brings the next one nearer to the door.

“Retribution Presidency”, an apt description of.

AMB has briefed me on this “digital virility” and “algorithmic popularity”. I understand that it involves powerful machinery spinning away in some sort of “cloud”
I’m accustomed the written word in the form of a daily newspaper being the foremost influence on opinion .

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So that was Mr. Trump’s attempt at levity, was it? A quip that in moments of war, democracy might be paused. One scarcely knows whether to laugh or shudder.

Are we to forget that freedom is eroded one concession at a time?

It is happening before us now, each day.

A Russian tank is observed flying a US flag in Ukraine.

This sight is not only a vile imposture, it is a calculated insult. It is meant to sow confusion among the innocent, to taunt the credulous, and to sully the honor of America in the eyes of those who look to her for liberty’s defence.

If America were to adopt such a policy, it would abandon not only Ukraine but every small nation that dares to resist aggression.

Once the world learns that liberty can be bartered away at the whim of one man’s vanity, then all frontiers grow perilous.

Here we have a most extraordinary spectacle: a man who aspires to lead the greatest republic on earth bending his ear to the siren song of the Kremlin.

It is one thing to parley with one’s adversaries in pursuit of peace; it is quite another to parrot their distortions as if they were gospel.

If America’s voice is turned to speak the Kremlin’s creed, then liberty itself trembles. Ukraine today is but the battleground; tomorrow it may be the very principle of self-government.

His inability to concentrate on matters central to governing a nation reveals a mental state at which civilization hardly knows whether to laugh or weep.

You’ve heard me state that history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes.

I fear this “meeting” may rhyme with Neville

I am troubled that Putin, as a declared war criminal will be received by a US President on American soil.

It’s always been my position that no one class, no one interest—economic, social, or political—no one segment of the political spectrum could use the system for its own exclusive interest.

I am saddened to see these protectionist models erected in the US.

They will damage all sooner and later