It's like Robespierre said: "How can the tyrant appeal to the social pact? He has abolished it."

"The Party must control the gun or the gun will control the Party."

That almost happened. Thompson was able to rescue people from Medina's unit because he told his crew chief to point his gun at American troops.

He's always leaning on something.

I think the 1920s should be remembered less as “everyone had money and challenged Victorian morality” and more as “reactionaries ran the country and elites partied while
half the nation entered the Depression ahead of schedule.”

Do they think my Dutch ancestors in New Netherlands would have been chill with parades for St. Patrick and San Gennaro?

Miller's ancestors were still farming mud in Belarus when London had electric taxis, so maybe he should pipe down.

The very in-your-face multiculturalism of the Macy's parade is actually closer to the original spirit of the holiday than the Pilgrim pageant.