PM? What's up with PM?

OK, you might wonder about PM. Well, the names referenced are not actually trademarked, although all work is copyrighted. So I decided to provisionally mark them. Provisional Marking? Well, o.k., it's something that exists only in my mind, however we do assert that these assets are unique, copyrighted, and intellectual property of the owner(s) and/or the creator(s) of this website. I hope that clears up the PM thing for you.

"It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force."
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers 1

After all what am I worth, that another man, a fellow creature, made in the likeness and image of God, should serve me?

Father Zossima, The Brothers Karamazov

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.

Declaration of Independence

"I must study politics and war so that my sons may have the liberty to study geography, navigation, commerce and agriculture so that their sons may have the liberty to study painting, poetry, and music."

John Adams