[Two thoughts on today’s Inaugural celebrations…]
This not a day of triumph; it is a day of dedication. Here muster not the forces of party, but the forces of Humanity… I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward-looking men to my side. God helping me, I will not fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain me!
— Woodrow Wilson
from his 1st Inaugural Address
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
— Sydney J. Harris
[To the former: I stand at your side, Mr. President. To the latter: ask me again in Nov. 2014 and then again about a year after that… Until then, God Bless you, Mr. President and God Bless the United States of America! — KMAB]
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