Today is election day in the United States of America.  If you are a US citizen, please take the time to fulfill your civic dury and cast your vote.

“Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”   – Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776)

“Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: ‘Tis onse step more to think one vote will do no harm.”    - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people.  Of course, that is not true.  Decisions are madeby a majority of thsoe who make themselves heard and who vote – a very different thing.”   - Walter H. Judd

“A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”   – Theodore Roosevelt

“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.”   – William E. Simon