But, as often happened, the official and the real had only a nodding acquaintance with each other. — Harry Turtledove

As happened too often in politics, never turned out not to be so very long after all.

You kill everybody who doesn’t want to see reason, people will get mighty thin on the ground mighty fast.

“Death is never dignified.” O’Doull spoke with a doctor’s certainty. “Never. Dignity in death is something we invent afterwards to make the living feel better.”