Is there anyone who smiles without a mask?

What's behind the words-images they know will please us?

I'll take what real. Bring up the lights....

Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling.

Think for yourself and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet

-Chris DeGarmo & Geoff Tate

From where I stand at the crossroads edge

there's a path leading out to sea

And from somewhere deep in my mind

sirens scream out loud

songs of doubt as only they know how

But glance back reminds, and I see,

someone else, not me

-Chris DeGarmo & Geoff Tate

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."

-Benjamin Franklin, 1759

Four boxes protect our freedom: the soap box, the

ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

The Constitution may not be the greatest work ever set to paper, but it beats what the government is using now.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of

servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776