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Dr. Franklin: "Treason doth never prosper.
For what is the reason?
If treason should prosper, none dare call it treason."

I remember that book from the 1964 campaign.
Stormer was a fellow Penn Stater and we noted his passing on Free Republic in 2018.

Republicans' defeat in 1964 brought on Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" a key benchmark against which Joseph Stolen measures himself and hopes to exceed.

The levels of pure nonsense today remind me of those times, which lead directly to Nixon's 1968 election and, arguably, to Reagan in 1980.
Today, it seems, we have maybe Trump in 2024 and then who thereafter?

Dr. Franklin: "Treason doth never prosper. For what is the reason? If treason should prosper, none dare call it treason." I remember that book from the 1964 campaign. Stormer was a fellow Penn Stater and we noted his passing on Free Republic in 20

The quote is attributed to John Harrington (1561-1612) who first published it as:
"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
I doubt it is original. It likely evolved from the Latin "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" "Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue" attributed to Seneca the Younger.