“The rioters called me a ‘traitor,’ a ‘disgrace,’ and shouted that I (an Army veteran and police officer) should be ‘executed.’ “What we were subjected to that day was like something from a medieval battlefield. We fought hand-to-hand and inch-by-inch to prevent an invasion of the Capitol by a violent mob intent on subverting our democratic process.” — Aquilino Gonell, U.S. Capitol Police Officer testifying at …

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. // Henry David Thoreau

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. // John Dryden

When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. // Dylan Thomas

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. // Ralph Waldo Emerson