The power of the people is greater than the people in power.
From the record-breaking Senate speech that Cory Booker made on April 1, 2025.
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This excerpt from the Book of Revelations, with its destructive monster being given complete control over mankind is frighteningly appropriate today …
Then the Dragon encouraged the Creature to speak great blasphemies against the Lord; and gave him authority to control the earth for forty-two months. All that time he blasphemed God’s Name and his temple and all those living in heaven. The Dragon gave him power to fight against God’s people and to overcome them, and to rule over all nations and language groups throughout the world. And all mankind—whose names were not written down before the founding of the world in the slain Lamb’s Book of Life—worshiped the evil Creature.
Revelation 13.5-8
There once was a brash billionaire
who couldn’t afford decent hair.
Vexed voters agreed:
“We’re a nation in need!”
But toupée the price, do we dare?
2020, by Michael R. Burch
Beginning of the speech given by Député Claude Malhuret before the French Assemblée Nationale on 5 Mar 2025. Why can’t United States politicians stand up to Trump like this?
The history of Europe is at a critical turning point. The American shield is vanishing, Ukraine may be abandoned, and Russia may be strengthened. Washington has become the court of Nero, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a buffoon on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service. It’s unfortunate for the free world, but it’s also unfortunate for the United States.
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By H. L. Mencken, 1920
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
Henry Louis Mencken was a journalist, satirist and social critic who wrote for the Baltimore Evening Sun. His pieces targeted incompetent political leaders such as Warren G. Harding, whom he is referring to in this citation. It still rings true today.
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Jean Racine, 1667
L’amour n’est pas un feu qu’on renferme en une âme :
Tout nous trahit, la voix, le silence, les yeux ;
Et les feux mal couverts n’en éclatent que mieux.
Love is not a fire that can be shut up inside one’s soul. Everything betrays us: our voice, our silence, our eyes; stifled fires burn all the brighter.
Andromaque is a tragedy written by Jean Racine in 1667, loosely based on Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid. Oreste loves Hermione, who loves Pyrrhus, who loves Andromaque, who is mourning her dead husband Hector.
In this dialogue, Oreste observes that Hermione is unable to disguise her love for Pyrrhus.
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After seeing the exhibit “The Invention of the Renaissance” at the BNF, and the work of the humanist Petrarch I wanted to write out a quote by one of his favorite Roman writers, Cicero.
Philippe Dabasse, of Barbedor Paris, inspired me to dust off my italic at his recent calligraphy class, using a model by scribe Bernardino Cattaneo.
From De Oratore, Book III, 55 B.C. by Marcus Tullius Cicero.Cicero’s De Oratore is a detailed study of the techniques and skills required by the ideal orator.
Animi est enim omnis actio et imago animi vultus, indices oculi: nam haec est una pars corporis, quae, quot animi motus sunt, tot significationes [et commutationes] possit efficere
For all the powers of action proceed from the mind, and the countenance is the image of the mind, and the eyes are its interpreters. This, indeed, is the only part of the body that can effectually display as infinite a number of expressions and changes, as there is of emotions in the soul;
Translated by J.S.Watson (1860).
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Des tableaux calligraphiés pour mes petits neveux.
Illuminated names I did for my grand nephews.
