I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon

Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin

Officers succumbed to the spirit of conspirators.

The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed

House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own.

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.