Today's Food for Thought

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln; First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our fathers used in the great struggle for Independence." -Charles A. Beard

“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote in a national election." -Bill Vaughan