The Ministries of Truth-Victor Davis Hanson

"Do you believe any more that some of our Secret Service agents — once the most esteemed of all professionals — on presidential assignment will not get drunk and womanize in their evening spare time? Do you believe that the grandees at the GSA — once the stern penny-pinchers that frowned when bureaucrats wanted a new bookcase — won’t flaunt the waste that they incur?"

The final loss of faith by the people in a governments desire to tell the truth is the loudest warning of the end of a republic..ed