Saturday, November 26, 2011

Thomas Jefferson (post #1)


Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), was a US Founding Father, who drafted the Declaration of Independence, who was also the 3rd US President. You can sign up over at Liberty Quotes - http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca, to get daily quotes!

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"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as a sorry state as the souls who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

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"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."-Thomas Jefferson
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
—Thomas Jefferson

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"I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses the general government at once of all the powers of the state governments, and reduces us to a single consolidated government), it would become the most corrupt government on the earth."
-- Thomas Jefferson

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"He [King George III] has erected a multitude of New Offices and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."
-- Thomas Jefferson
(Is this not happening today?)

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"The policy of American government is to leave its citizens free,
neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits."
-- Thomas Jefferson



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