If you have not gone out to vote today, I would like to encourage you to do so now! While many refer to our country as a Democracy, the truth of the matter is that we are a Representative Republic! If you do not exercise your right to vote then you are not represented!
I leave you, today, with the words of Thomas Paine. He wrote these words on December 23, 1776, just before Washington crossed the Delaware! These words provided inspiration for a rag tag group of soldiers with wet and icy rags tied around their feet in place of boots! They moved forward and secured our Freedom! Exercise your Freedom today! And no matter how things turn out, Don't Smoke Over It!
"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated."
Live Free! Smoke Free!
Tommy
