A View from Behind the Curtain: On Voting

Saturday, June 16, 2012

On Voting

I think this speaks to the problem the average American voter is facing. As our politicians evolve and are shaped by the society they are supposed to serve are we able to find strong leaders who can stand on principle and build consensus?

Is it possible to find men and women who balance the constitution and individual rights, placing those qualities before personal ambition and greed?

Are there politicians who do not always use political gain as the basis for decision, and if so, is it possible for them to be elected President?

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The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic,"  Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

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