[apochromat]

When occasions present themselves in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection. - Hamilton, Federalist #71.

A government resting on a minority is an aristocracy, not a republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. - Madison, Federalist #46.

Tree falling, some day, unless they suspend it with wires.

[PsyOp]

Tree falling

Unless we share this post (and others like it) with as many people as we can and remind people what it takes to keep a Republic free.