''From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some transatlantic giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe and Asia could not, by force, take a drink from the Ohio River or set a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. If destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we will live forever, or die by suicide."

(Abraham Lincoln, address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, IL, January, 1838)



I was told there would be punch and pie.

(me, address to myself internally, when i showed up to a lame event February, 2011)