Quotes of the Day

"I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election."

Walt Whitman

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

Edmund Burke

VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Abraham Lincoln

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Thomas Paine