A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt…If the game runs sometime against us at home, we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.
Thomas Jefferson
[President Obama and supporters, please meet my hero, Thomas Jefferson.–Joe]
A very timely and great quote, Joe.
amen
The best overall measure of a socialist government is not the wonderful things it does, since it seldom does such things, but the number of its own people it has to kill to keep itself going. Include in the total everyone from the infirm dying from government health care to the dissident dying in the gulag.