Faucian Bargain Quotes

“Whosoever controls the flow of information in any culture ultimately has control.”
― Steve Deace, Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History

“For God’s sake, enough. Fauci isn’t your friend. He’s a fiend. Franklin was one of our beloved Founding Fathers, but Fauci is an unfounding deadbeat dad. Nearly every premise he has asserted from the beginning has either been a well-intentioned or purposeful undermining of truth, the Constitution, the rule of law, common decency, and individual liberty. A year under Fauci’s thumb makes King George III’s madness look like the JV team, and that’s not even talking about the mental health cataclysm that awaits. His time as the Wormtongue-esque shadow casting a pall over our nation must come to an end. But for that freedom to return, our own fear that has become our idol has to go. Time to throw that idol into the fire…”
― Steve Deace, Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History

“Come and take it” used to be an edgy patriotic dare referring to the Second Amendment. Now it’s lamely and effeminately tweeted out by those who don’t want government to ever end their futile mask mandates.”
― Steve Deace, Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History

“Yet to actually have the front row seat to see it in real time, with clapping seals surrounding us on every side—as their rights, and their freedoms, and their virtue are obviously eroding with no end in sight—is simply stunning to behold. Like a tale of old, which is now our new normal.”
― Steve Deace, Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History

“A randomized study by the American College of Physicians Public Health Emergency Collection published on June 24, 2020, concluded “randomized trials in community settings found possibly no difference between N95 versus surgical masks and probably no difference between surgical versus no mask in risk for influenza or influenza-like (respiratory) illness.”146”
― Steve Deace, Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History

“To that end, this book sees the role it has to play in such a cause as arming you, the reader, with the most devastating weapon of our current technological age—information. Some of this information is so important, and will be so foreign to the Fake News narrative/panic porn you’ve been bombarded with, that it will need to be repeated. Just as the COVID vaccines emerging at the time this book was written require more than one dose, so will some of the truths you’ll come to learn in this book.”
― Steve Deace, Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History

“That’s because we have been derelict in answering history’s call. Largely because prior to coronavirus we were drunk on comfort and complacency. But COVID-19 has taught us, harshly, that all we’ve been blessed to take for granted and which previous generations had to fight for can be taken away faster than you can say “nonessential business.”
― Steve Deace, Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History

“Yet all it takes for “checks and balances” to become bureaucracy, and bureaucracy to devolve into an all-powerful and self-perpetuating administrative state, is for self-governing men and women to do nothing.”
― Steve Deace, Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History