Some of my favorite Thomas Jefferson quotes: “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.” “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” “On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.” “The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.” “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” “The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.” “To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.” “Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:08:24 +0000