November 02, 2004
Election Day
Some inspirational quotes today from The Writer's Almanac:
George Bernard Shaw said, "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
W.C. Fields said, "I never vote for anyone. I always vote against."
Gore Vidal said, "Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for President. One hopes it is the same half."
Ambrose Bierce said, "[A] vote [is] the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."
Mark Twain said, "If there is any valuable difference between a monarchist and an American, it lies in the theory that the American can decide for himself what is patriotic and what isn't. I claim that difference. I am the only person in the sixty millions that is privileged to dictate my patriotism."
