My favorite Jefferson quotes are as relevant today as they were in his day. Take heed, you Democrats he speaks to the same planks in your party’s platform that you all so vehemently support:
"When we get piled
upon one another in large cities, as in Europe,
we shall become as corrupt as Europe."
"The democracy will cease to exist
when you take away from those
who are willing to work and give to those who would not. "
"It is incumbent on every
generation to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would save
one-half the wars of the world. "
"I predict future happiness for
Americans if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under the
pretense of taking care of them."
"My reading of history convinces me
that most bad government results from too much
government. "
"The strongest reason for the
people to retain the right to keep and bear arms
is, as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government. "
"To compel a man to subsidize with
his taxes the propagation of ideas which he
disbelieves and abhors are sinful and tyrannical. "
It has been asked, how did Jefferson in his time know our fledgling government was going to be subjected to these kinds of affronts in the future? Because in his superior intellect he was a student of the history of European forms of government that preceded our founder's efforts, their distortive political machinations, their rise, and fall. And, in that keenly aware that those that fail to remember the failures of the past and guard against them, are destined to repeat them.
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