For those contemplating the upcoming voting process, I ask that you remember and understand exactly what you are doing in light of the following.

There are those who claim to not understand or care about the candidates.  ['He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.' - Thomas Jefferson]  or even  ['Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.' - Abraham Lincoln]

There are some who will stay home and not vote.  ['All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.' - Thomas Jefferson]

There are some calling themselves 'Independents' who simply sway with the wind.  ['Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.' - Alexander Hamilton]

['There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.' - Daniel Webster]

But, still, there are voters who will continue to believe the prattle of the populist and leftist orators who want more power over us because 'they'll understand how to use it for our benefits.'  ['Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.' - Benjamin Franklin]

A little over 200 hundred years ago, people were dying in the process of creating our Country, it's freedom, and it's morality-based background.  Freedom and the United States were born in the blood of those who believed and fought.  Our 'fore-fathers' were all agreed on most of the principles of the establishment of our country, and they spoke up about them.  ['Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!' [3/23/1775] - Patrick Henry]

In our voting this year, such principles and standards as set up should be adhered to in electing our officials.  Would they have stood up to be counted 200+ years ago?  Would they have offered their lives and properties, standing together with fellow citizens to fight for our freedoms?  Will they represent the rest of us to preserve the 'life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness' for the rest of us?

['It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust (the office of President) was to be confided.... Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption.... The process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.... It will not be too strong to say that there be constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters preeminent for ability and virtue....' ( In Federalist No. 68) - Alexander Hamilton]

Or will these politicians cave in to or join forces with those behind greed, religious intimidation, terror, and political correctness to the present or long-term detriment of our Country?  Our Country is best governed by the least power over we the citizens.  ['It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.' - Alexander Hamilton]

And we must remember that our Country was firmly established using a religious sense of right and wrong.  ['By removing the Bible from schools we would be wasting so much time and money in punishing criminals and so little pains to prevent crime. Take the Bible out of our schools and there would be an explosion in crime.' - Benjamin Rush]

And we must know and understand that we are a Country of doers, with charity to those who really need it, but expectations that everyone else will share the burden.  ['The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.' - Thomas Jefferson]

Many politicians speak the names of our founders [mostly in the wrong context] to substantiate their weak arguments for policies that are neither essential nor wise for our government to pursue.  But, if they really believed in us, the people, they would adhere to actual principles and not resort to 'misstatements' or 'misspeaking.'  Actual quotes of the founding fathers and respected former politicians are not used because they won't bolster the falsehood of the present.