Our Quote for the Battle to Come

"Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die" is already taken, so:

"I believe that as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary, and there are people in distress who cannot help themselves."

Yes, I had to look it up. There are too many from this man to choose from, too hard for those of us who remember to contemplate for long, too utterly heartbreaking to imagine what it would be like if we had a leader today who did not just speak this way, but acted this way.

Yes, it's from a campaign book. One written by a first-time candidate for the U.S. Senate.

The Pursuit of Justice, by Robert Francis Kennedy, 1964.