Robert Varipapa

Retired Neurologist, geek, computers, drones, photography, amateur philosophy

“A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law,
must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power:
the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice;
his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness”

— Edward Gibbon
(who wrote ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’)