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Saturday Night Advice for U.S. Voters Next Tuesday (1940) BY Prof. John Q. Barrett

eHezi 7:40pm • October 30, 2010 Archives 4 Comments

The Yonkers Connection On November 2, 1940, the Saturday before Election Day, Robert H. Jackson, the Attorney General of the United States, delivered the principal speech at a political meeting outside of New York City. That year featured a presidential election that Jackson and many believed would be close and, for Democrats, possibly a defeat: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, seeking …

"It's not where you sit, it's who you are. And when you know who you are, you will know where to sit." -- Richard Narog

“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.” ― Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed

Read the Yonkers Tribune for pertinent, hyperlocal perspectives embellished with gravitas, unadulterated by spin. ~~~ Hezi Aris

"The punishment of the wise who refuse to take part in government is to live under the rule of the foolish"
- Plato

“When inequality is the general rule in society, the greatest inequalities attract no attention.” ~ Alexis de Tocqueville

“If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and would achieve nothing.” ~~~ Margaret Thatcher