Prepare for ruthless kleptocratic tyranny after Nov. 5; you can't hide
"The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical."
— John Adams (1735-1826), a Founding Father and second president of the United States, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, dated Nov. 13, 1815. Both of them died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.