“The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government. Government, as the Father of Our Country put it so well, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. People who understand history, especially the history of government, do well to fear it. For a people to express openly their fear of those of us who are afraid of tyranny is alarming. Fear of the state is in no sense subversive. It is, to the contrary, the healthiest political philosophy for a free people.” PeopleWellsCountryStatesPhilosophySeemsGovernmentPoliticalCertainFatherDangerousMastersGunContraryCirclesTyrannyTendenciesConclusionOur CountryServantFearfulPolitical PhilosophySubversive Author:Jeff Cooper
“He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the black side of things after a defeat, a tendency which can lead one into dangerous and false conclusions.” LooksSaidSidesBlackDangerousDefeatDisasterTendenciesConclusionUpsetLiableVery DepressedStalingrad Author:Erwin Rommel
“The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which is what I think is discovered as that longish sentence at the end of the poem comes to its conclusion. But here I am interpreting my own poem, which is kind of like making out with one's own high school yearbook photo.” ThinkingKindEndsFeelingsSchoolRealizingMy OwnDangerousHigh SchoolSentencesAbsurdConclusionReach OutSpeakersConsolationHere I AmInterpretingYearbookHigh School Yearbook Author:Matthew Zapruder
“If you have got high-ranking officials reaching down five levels in the bureaucracy to drag an analyst up to their office to berate them and threaten their jobs because they don't like the conclusions about an intelligence matter, that, in my view, is dangerous.” IfsMatterJobsLevelsViewsFiveDangerousOfficeConclusionOfficialsReachingDragBureaucracyAnalystsRanking Author:Christopher Dodd