I've said it...but not as well...

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt?...Why does it always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?
-Henry David Thoreau- "Civil Disobedience"


The determination of our...President to prosecute the war, and the probablility of his success in wringing from the people men and money to carry it on is made evidendtr ,ather than doubtful by the puny opposition arrayed against him...None seem willing to take their stand for peace at all risks.
-Frederick Douglas- On then president Zach Tyler, but oh so apropos today.