Quote of the Day -- Abraham Lincoln

Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. 

-- Abraham Lincoln

Quote of the Day -- James Clear

The trick to writing well is to... 

- take long sentences and make them short

- take confusing ideas and make them clear 

- take unrelated concepts and make them related

...without losing the main idea in the process.

-- James Clear

Quote of the Day -- Leo Tolstoy

There is only one time that is important— Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

-- Leo Tolstoy

Quote of the Day -- David Foster Wallace

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.

-- David Foster Wallace

Quote of the Day -- Barbara Kingsolver

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. 

― Barbara Kingsolver

Quote of the Day -- Maya Angelou

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

-- Maya Angelou

Quote of the Day -- Harry Truman

It’s not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It’s the hand that casts the ballot.

-- Harry Truman

Quote of the Day -- Dorothy Day

People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. 

-- Dorothy Day

Quote of the Day -- Plato

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

-- Plato

Quote of the Day -- Robert M Hutchins

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

-- Robert M Hutchins