Happy Birthday, Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo was born in 1802. Something he said is so very appropriate to our world situation today:

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world:

and that is an idea whose time has come.

One can resist the invasion of an army

but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Today in the Middle East, the idea of Freedom and Democracy has taken hold. No army, no imported mercenaries, no dictator is able to stand before the invasion of those ideas that are sweeping through the land. It is an idea whose time has come.