About Me: "The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes." --- Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter


''Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.''
--- Aristotle




''Do not take thought for your persons or your properties,
but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement
of the soul. I tell you that the virtue is not given by money,
but that from vitue come money and every other good of man,
public as well as private... The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness;
for that runs faster than death.''
--- Socrates


Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased
at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
I know not what course others may take; but as for me,
give me liberty or give me death!" --- Patrick Henry


''A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.''

---Marcus Tullius Cicero