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per_soloI did it, I went and voted. And, out of all my votes, I'm least happy with one, but oh well.
A comment was posted in my last entry that deserves its own mark here.
"However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/washing.htm
A comment was posted in my last entry that deserves its own mark here.
"However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/washing.htm
