[zeugma]

Quote: "If you have done nothing wrong, comrade, then you have nothing to fear." - Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria (1899 - 1953), chief of the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) under Stalin.

And again.

This one too...

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom--go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen! --Samuel Adams

Jackboots come from both the left, and the right. That's why it is so easy to create totalitarian states. It is something we have to guard against with eternal vigilance.

[af_vet_rr]

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom--go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen! --Samuel Adams

It's a shame that when you say the name "Samuel Adams" these days, most people think of beer. Out of the founding fathers, he doesn't get the attention and respect he deserves.