The Conservative Cave
Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: NHSparky on January 13, 2011, 03:02:56 PM
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Since you seem to only want to quote Jefferson when he says something that MIGHT hint at him not being a Christian (although he was) and not accept his other writings and statements at face value, perhaps you can ponder this one for a bit and see how prescient he was:
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery."
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"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery."
That is so brilliantly inconvenient to the libtards, I do believe I am in possession of the most impressive intellectual erection I've had since the night I met my old lady.
H5 and well done, Sparky. :cheersmate:
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Jefferson was very prescient in seeing the dangers of corporatocracy. /DU mode
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That is so brilliantly inconvenient to the libtards, I do believe I am in possession of the most impressive intellectual erection I've had since the night I met my old lady.
H5 and well done, Sparky. :cheersmate:
Gee, thanx, now I need mind bleach to obliterate the image therein... :tongue:
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:cheersmate:
How about some more Jefferson quotes?
-A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
-All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
-An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
-As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
-Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
-Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
-Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
-For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
-I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
-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.
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That is so brilliantly inconvenient to the libtards, I do believe I am in possession of the most impressive intellectual erection I've had since the night I met my old lady.
H5 and well done, Sparky. :cheersmate:
Gag me with a spoon. Get a friggin room! :-)