Pop, who maintained that a wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice. - Robert A. Heinlein

“So far as I have listened, before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.”
“Elementary. Go on.”
“Well…high taxation is important and so is inflation of the currency and the ratio of the productive to those on the public payroll. But that’s old hat; everybody knows that a country is on the skids when its income and outgo get out of balance and stay that way—even though there are always endless attempts to wish it away by legislation.”

“But you were right!”
“Since when has being right endeared a man to his boss?”

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