"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Myth of the American Hero in Uniform
"The legend of the hero spans through written history, sometimes the heroes are gods and sometimes mere mortals; however, every culture has at least one hero and many have several. The hero always fights the greatest evil, regardless what form it takes. The hero in myth defeats the villain, however, usually at great cost to the hero himself. Heroes die bloody, tempestuous deaths; in many cases the hero may breathe their last breath overcoming whatever great evil can be conjured up at the moment."
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Many a zero, nary a hero.