"The only thing new is the history you don't know." Harry S. Truman

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." _{-- Noah Webster}

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." _{-- George Washington}

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle! Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." --Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857.

"Power is intoxicating to all. It feeds upon itself. We the people gain nothing by substituting new people for old in Washington. Our only hope is to take away the power that has been concentrated there, so that no one can use it benevolently or otherwise. Once we allow ourselves to become the subjects of benevolent power, we shall soon fiind ourselves the slaves of a very unbenevolent power." --Betty Knowles Hunt

VOTING FOR A REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT is like "Hobson's Choice" -
1] an apparent freedom to take or reject something offered when in fact no such freedom exists: an apparent freedom of choice when there is no real alternative. [Webster's 3rd International Dictionary]
2] According to Words and Phrases, Hobson's Choice : The very word "election" signifies a free choice, and an election by compulsion is an anomaly. An election which involves no freedom of choice is known as "Hobson's Choice", which is defined as a choice without an alternative. New v Smith, 145 P 880. There are updated cases in the cummulative suppliment pp: 831 FS 1166, 1188; 530 A2d 1044, 1046
Thomas Hobson, a seventeenth-century liveryman in Cambridge, England, told every customer he could have any horse he wanted, as long as it was the one nearest the door. Hobson's choice should not be used in the context of dilemma or mere indecision. It is a choice between what is offered and nothing.

"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it."  -Woodrow Wilson
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people, On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” - H.L. Mencken