"Information is the currency of democracy." - Thomas Jefferson

"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority." - Benjamin Franklin

"Without vision, the people shall perish." - Proverbs 29:18

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy or perhaps both." - James Madison, August 4, 1822

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."
The Declaration of Independence - The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
The Constitution of the United States - The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Amendment I - The Bill of Rights - The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

The just published Winter 2022 Piermont Newsletter along with many past issues are now available here.