Sparks: Suspect in press gala shooting charged with attempted assassination of Trump

Another man's violence is not in your control, only your refusal to be terrorized by it.

Democracy’s great vulnerability lies not in its written laws but in the unspoken customs of public life now being erased.

The weapon, once created, has a life and a logic its creators refuse to acknowledge until it is turned upon them.

To topple a king is simple compared to rooting out the tyranny that lives in the hearts of men.

This moral outrage thinly veils a secret admiration for the strength required to transgress the ultimate taboo.

An infinite universe contains infinite possibilities for both reason and madness, and our small world is not the center of either.

Catalog the motive, the weapon, the opportunity with precise calibration before declaring you understand the event itself.

The gala’s champagne flutes had barely been cleared before the charges were served, a rather more substantial course.

They will call it an attack on a president, but I have seen what they call justice when the target is not a king.

An experiment in political violence yields a predictable result: more security for the powerful, less liberty for the rest.

One man is charged, but the real conspiracy is the culture of violent rhetoric that nurtured him.

Freedom is secured not by a single dramatic act but by the quiet, disciplined work of building a path through the danger.

Hegemony is most secure when the public demands its own cages for the illusion of safety.

A society that educates its citizens in the art of conflict, not reason, should not feign surprise at the result.