As a free citizen—a member of the people—of the United States of America, I hereby declare all years ending in six and having repeating digits in the hundreths and tenths positions to be henceforth designated The Year of the People in honor of our Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Thus, this year—2006—and 2116, 2226, 2336, and so forth are The Year of the People.
The Year of the People will always be a year when we elect a full House of Representatives in Congress, the House of the people.
The Year of the People will be a time when we rededicate ourselves to the committment so eloquently stated by Abraham Lincoln in The Gettysburg Address:
"It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)
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