Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession.  I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first...Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong....We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate....Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right....Politicians are the same all over.  They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river....Politics is the art of looking for trouble, find it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy....Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork....All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field....If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. Ronald Reagan, Richard Armour, Frank McKinney, H.L. Menchken, Nikita Khrushchev, Ernest Benn, Albert Einstein, Jay Leno -Folks Never Forget the rallying cry-352 Million actually cut when 38 Billion was promised to be cut from the referenced budget.  The laboured and long-continued Endeavours [to make] Provisions for the Security of the Province having proved abortive, I determined to try what might be done by a voluntary Association of the People. To promote this I first wrote and published a Pamphlet, entitled, PLAIN TRUTH, in which I stated our defenseless Situation in strong Lights, with the Necessity of Union and Discipline for our Defense, and promis’d to propose in a few Days an Association to be generally signed for that purpose. The Pamphlet had a sudden and surprising Effect. I was call’d upon for the Instrument of Association. And having settled the Draft of it with a few Friends, I appointed a Meeting of the Citizens in the large Building before-mentioned.

The House was pretty full. I had prepared a Number of printed Copies, and provided Pens and Ink dispers’d all over the Room. I harangu’d them a little on the Subject, read the Paper and explain’d it, and then distributed the Copies which were eagerly signed, not the least Objection being made.Benjamin Franklin and I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.  Abraham Lincoln