Milly Dogood

Fear thrives where ignorance is cultivated. Give citizens the facts, protect their rights, and the designs of those who would discourage them lose much of their power. The ballot is the instrument by which free citizens remind government from whom its authority proceeds.

Our great Institutions profess an uncommon devotion to Justice, provided Justice makes no demands upon their reputation. Let the injured speak, and suddenly the Institution discovers itself the true victim. Thus is accountability transformed into persecution, and silence mistaken for peace.

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The greatest strength of a free people is not that they never choose unwisely, but that they retain the power to correct their mistakes without surrendering their liberty.

Several other countries may be entering this discussion shortly.

A republic may withstand the armies of a foreign tyrant and yet perish from the suspicions he plants among its own people. The object is not necessarily to make the public believe the lie. It is to make the public doubt that anything can be believed.

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He who demands sacrifice from others should first produce the receipt for his own. I confess I was unaware that the Founders had appointed Mr. Ramaswamy their celestial secretary, much less authorized him to interrogate Americans at the gates of Heaven.

How ingenious is modern civilization! Having proclaimed torture an offense against humanity, our enlightened gentlemen have apparently discovered that suffering becomes perfectly respectable when administered by a sufficiently expensive machine.

How curious that a party forever preaching family values should discover that cruelty toward a family is merely the price of victory. Apparently, principles are sacred only until they become inconvenient.

A nation that sacrifices its wells to feed its machines may soon discover that artificial intelligence is no substitute for natural wisdom.

When a political campaign presents an estranged parent's condemnation, while omitting why they are estranged, it is inviting to mistake a family tragedy for a political argument. One digging through another's childhood wounds in search of political treasure may reveal more of his own character.

A vote cast beneath the shadow of intimidation may be counted as one, but liberty demands that it be cast without fear.

There are those who spend their lives wishing they had been present when history was made, never considering that history is being made around them every day. The question is not whether we shall participate in it, but whether posterity will thank us for the part we played.

See, I decided to write those all down because I had the thought: "are the cognitive tests randomized"? The Montreal Cognitive Assessment test (which has "name these three animals") apparently does NOT randomize. They use three animals as a standard; lion, rhinoceros, and camel.

When a man has spent years denouncing an investigator, it is a curious misfortune to discover that his own lawsuit may provide that investigator another opportunity to testify.

A government that cannot make education affordable has discovered a most ingenious solution: make the consequences of seeking one unbearable.

He who blames the stranger for an empty purse hopes you will never examine the hand that emptied it. A people divided by suspicion may be governed by those who have done nothing to deserve their confidence. Prejudice may distract a hungry man for an hour, but it cannot feed his family for a day.

No one is demonizing "guys" for being white. They're demonizing guys for trying to take away other people's rights.

When wealth purchases the lawmakers, poverty soon receives the bill. I am informed that the nation grows richer by the hour. This must be splendid news to the family choosing between supper and rent, though I suspect they would prefer a portion of this prosperity to a lecture concerning it.

Five days or seven, the greater mystery is how so little time produced so much embarrassment.

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A badge is not a license to assault. A federal title is not a shield from prosecution. And evidence is not optional. Justice that bends before a badge will soon break beneath a boot.

Sometimes the cover-up is worse than the crime. Et tu, Nixon?

A Golden Age that empties the common man's purse is merely a gilded age for those already wealthy. Funny how the Golden Age keeps showing up in speeches but never at the grocery store.

When a nation's defense depends upon the goodwill of a single billionaire, we have mistaken private fortune for public security. No man's wealth should grant him the power to decide another nation's fate. He who holds the only key to your door may soon imagine himself master of the house.

Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. 💚 The places we love and fight to protect are Indigenous homelands long before they became national parks. Those connections are still very much alive.

A Town filled with mechanical Parrots may sound exceedingly populous, until someone extinguishes the Power. The Autocrat's fondest Dream is to manufacture a thousand Voices assuring him that no critics exist. How fortunate when the Machinery develops a sudden Disposition toward Silence.

A free People ought to fear the Day when their Government becomes more interested in demonstrating what it can do to them than explaining what it intends to do for them.

Poor Richard once said, “Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead.” He neglected to add: and if the third does not take Screenshots.

To tax only Income when Wealth has learned not to arrive as Income is rather like taxing the Milk while exempting the Cow.

The President's job is not to decide which Americans are expendable. It is rather inconveniently to discover that none of them are.

There is something exquisitely Washington about Rahm Emanuel recommending new rules precisely when the question is whether anyone will enforce the ones already written.

A voting requirement should distinguish the lawful voter from the unlawful one. A requirement that chiefly distinguishes those who navigate bureaucracy easily from those who do not is testing something else entirely.

An interesting approach to voter assistance: begin by removing the assistance. A right need not be formally abolished if one can simply make its exercise sufficiently mysterious. When the Government does anything quietly, citizenry ought to get loud.

Nothing says ‘world’s most powerful military’ quite like personnel policy written on a middle school trapper keeper. Sun Tzu famously devoted several chapters to making sure nobody looks weird. The Civil War, however, was apparently riddled with readiness problems.

At two years old, most children are learning complete sentences. Apparently some are now expected to master immigration law. A nation that summons a toddler before the law without counsel may possess procedure, but one wonders what has become of justice.

Institutions often promise transparency once they have finished determining how much transparency the institution can survive. Accountability should not require a literature review.

If the crisis reliably intensifies when ballots are printed, the calendar deserves at least a footnote in the threat assessment. The awkward moment in political messaging is when someone who helped sell the previous seasons starts explaining the plot.

Contracts have the irritating habit of retaining the old noun after the press release has selected a nicer one.

Once is a ruling. Twice is precedent. Three times is the judiciary asking whether Missouri would like the instructions read aloud.

Confirmation bias becomes much more impressive once issued training materials. Election monitoring asks, ‘Did something go wrong?’ Litigation preparation has the subtly different question, ‘What have we got?’