"The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls -- the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning." ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Four more years under President Abraham Lincoln 'will irretrievably and hopelessly destroy' the United States as a land of constitutionally protected freedom, state Register of Lands Sample Orr wrote to U.S. Rep. James Rollins.” Not that the Constitution was doing a bang of job of do that anyway, but Lincoln's presidency certainly pushed things further along.
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