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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
When the police captured McVeigh, he was wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Abraham Lincoln and the words “Sic Semper Tyrannis.” The same words John Wilkes Booth shouted after he assassinated Lincoln, they mean “Thus always to tyrants” and are the words attributed to Brutus after he and his supporters murdered Caesar.
from Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
Steven Kempton added 7mo ago