Thought for the Day

"The nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such,
as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer; it eats faster
and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners
urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous,
the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases
the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity,
public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn,
and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality
swallow up the whole of society."

John Adams
Former President, United States of America