Budget Referendum Vote Today!

I think democracy a most precious thing, not because any democratic state is perfect, but because it is perfectible. It sounds heartbreakingly banal, but I believe that you cannot even fool most of the people most of the time. They are quite likely to vote in their own interest. I also believe that since a democracy is made up of individual electors, the electors will protect the rights of the individual. A democracy may sometimes grant too little power to its government and at other times allow government to infringe on the rights of the individual -- Prohibition is example enough -- but the vote always offers the means of correcting imbalance...

- A.J. Liebling, The Road Back to Paris (1944)