trust no man

"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
-- John Adams

shattered balance

"Then everything began to reel before my eyes, a fiery gust came from the sea, while the sky cracked in two, from end to end, and a great sheet of flame poured down through the rift. Every nerve in my body was a steel spring, and my grip closed on the revolver. The trigger gave, and the smooth underbelly of the butt jogged my palm. And so, with that crisp, whipcrack sound, it all began. I shook off my sweat and the clinging veil of light. I knew I'd shattered the balance of the day, the spacious calm of this beach on which I had been happy. But I fired four shots more into the inert body, on which they left no visible trace. And each successive shot was another loud, fateful rap on the door of my undoing."
--The Stranger, Albert Camus

why he'll never go away

"'Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind."
--King Lear, William Shakespeare

why?

"I want to ask the president, why did he kill my son? He said my son died in a noble cause, and I want to ask him what that noble cause is."

"I want him to honor my son by bringing the troops home immediately ... I don't want him to use my son's name or my name to justify any more killing."

--Cindy Sheehan, mother of 24-year-old son -- Army Spc. Casey Sheehan of Vacaville, California -- who was killed in Baghdad's Sadr City on April 4, 2004.