We have had them both, and neither is good.

This republic has no place for a vast military service and conscription.

— Democratic National Platform

Anyone think our government is out of control?

There is little reason for optimism that the Democrats will follow through on this supposed mandate, and deliver us from the evil of the growing police state of warrantless searches, indefinite detentions, sweeping surveillance, and other attacks on civil liberties.

— Anthony Gregory, "Will the Democrats Save Our Civil Liberties?" December 20, 20

More words of wisdom from the Great Agnostic

“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” Robert Green Ingersoll

There seems to be no end to how much they will take.

Whoever desires liberty should understand … that every man who puts money into the hands of a "government" (so called), puts into its hands a sword which will be used against himself, to extort more money from him.

— Lysander Spooner, No Treason [1870

They knew the problems and many of the answers.

But the safety of the people of America against dangers from foreign force depends not only on their forbearing to give just causes of war to other nations, but also on their placing and continuing themselves in such a situation as not to invite hostility or insult; for it need not be observed that there are pretended as well as just causes for war. — John Jay, Federalist No. 4 [November 7, 1787]