Via Paul Cella, over on Obsidian Wings...

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who just happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of their birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of their death.

-G. K. Chesterton

On an entirely different note, happy Independence Day, all you Stateside Americans out there.