did i mention?

[semersonp]

a non-regular in my barber shop explained to the world at large that obama had already raised taxes even though he had been president less than a month...

if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
-tj

(bonus quote!)

whenever people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that, whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them right
-also thomas jefferson

for what its worth