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Masters of our fate

May 9, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

[T]he people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
— Abraham Lincoln

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Anarchists?

April 18, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists.
— G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

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Above Politics?

April 11, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

I don’t want politicians who are ‘above politics,’ any more then I want a plumber who’s ‘above toilets’.’
— Ta-Nahesi Coates

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James Monroe, first inaugural address, 1817

March 28, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

“It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.”
~James Monroe, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1817

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Executive Ability

January 11, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
~John G. Pollard

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

— Charles Kingsley

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