“There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.”
(President Ronald Reagan In his farewell address in 1988)
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”
George Orwell
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure
you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” ~Robert McCloskey
"My left is weakened. My right is broken. The situation is excellent. I'm on the attack." Field Communiqué to Headquarters,
Marshal Foch (French Commander, 1851-1929)