“Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.”
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)
“[as George W. Bush] I will tame evil, I will get the evil ones, We must find the evil ones. We must get evil, we must laminate evil, we must wear it round our necks, at the backstage party in paradise!”
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