WHAT IS DUTY?

Electoral College Voters: vote your conscience! Allegiance to party, fear of retribution and insecurity of action betray your country. Your role on December 19th was born of our founding fathers. You have a duty to God and country to vote your conscience. And while we know that what we ask of you requires a tremendous amount of courage, in the end, being on the side of justice will always win.

“The sense of the people should operate in the choice of the [President],” said Alexander Hamilton. Our founders created a safety valve on the Presidential election process. The Electoral College was intended to be, as Hamilton said “a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice.”

1. WHAT IS POWER?
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” - Teddy Roosevelt
2. WHAT IS RESPONSIBILITY?
“When a citizen gives his vote to a man of known immorality, he abuses his civic responsibility; he not only sacrifices his own responsibility; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.” - Noah Webster
3. WHAT IS COURAGE?
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
4. WHAT IS HEROIC?
“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. WHAT IS LIBERTY?
“It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer (the liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution) to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.” - Samuel Adams
6. WHAT IS SUCCESS?
“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived — this is to have succeeded.” - Bessie Anderson Stanley
7. WHAT IS PATRIOTISM?
“There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.” - Alexander Hamilton
8. WHAT IS FEAR?
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” - Harry S. Truman
9. WHAT IS DECENCY?
“Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen... If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” - Louis Brandeis
10. WHAT IS INTEGRITY?
“Every man who parrots the cry of “stand by the President” without adding the proviso “so far as he serves the Republic” takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.” - Teddy Roosevelt

WHAT IS DUTY?

1. WHAT IS POWER?

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” - Teddy Roosevelt

2. WHAT IS RESPONSIBILITY?

“When a citizen gives his vote to a man of known immorality, he abuses his civic responsibility; he not only sacrifices his own responsibility; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.” - Noah Webster

3. WHAT IS COURAGE?

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

4. WHAT IS HEROIC?

“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

5. WHAT IS LIBERTY?

6. WHAT IS SUCCESS?

7. WHAT IS PATRIOTISM?

“There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.” - Alexander Hamilton

8. WHAT IS FEAR?

9. WHAT IS DECENCY?

10. WHAT IS INTEGRITY?