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"Lead, follow, or get out of the way."      -Thomas Paine
"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why.
   I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" 
                                                                              --  Robert F. Kennedy
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B. Thomas Marking
". . . a state which dwarfs its men . . . will find that with small men no great thing
       can really be accomplished."          -
John Stuart Mill
"In 1776, we fought for our independence from an aristocratic and arrogant government, grown distant from the people it was supposed to serve.  Now we are fighting for our independence from another arrogant and aristocratic government, also grown distant from those it is supposed to serve -- this time, one that resides on our own shores."  -- from Amendment XXIX by B. Thomas Marking
The Patriots of 1776
"As long as we argue, there is hope, and as long as there
   is hope, we will argue."
                                              -- Howard Fineman