"The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls -- the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"You could say it was the beginning of a new United States of America… which hardly resembled the old structure. It was the beginning of taxation without representation… The complete reversal of everything Americans fought for and achieved during the American Revolution. It began the era of the American Empire. A centralized government, large enough to do whatever it wanted without restraint. Too large for the people to control through representative democracy."
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