Mammillaria albilanata No. 1
The flowers of Mammillaria albilanata, one of several cacti currently in bloom.
And, some thoughts from Thomas Paine:
“When a people agree to form themselves into a republic … it is understood that they mutually resolve and pledge themselves to each other, rich and poor alike, to support this rule of equal justice among them … (and) they renounce as detestable, the power of exercising, at any future time any species of despotism over each other, or of doing a thing not right in itself, because a majority of them may have the strength of numbers sufficient to accomplish it.”