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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered."
― George Orwell, 1984
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I'm a big fan of the courtesy flush.
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Very true. Good thing to keep in mind.
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I believe that Jefferson also said "The power to tax is the power to destroy".
All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void. � Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (2 Cranch) 137 (1803)
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sounds like we need jefferson for president in '08 
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A government is the most dangerous threat to man�s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. (James Madison)
"Good enough" isn't.
Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.
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Just be glad we're not geting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers
I saw a movie where only the military and the police had guns. It was called Schindler's List.
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"No enemy in his right mind would ever bomb the Pentagon. That would just end all the confusion."
(anonymous, ca World War Two)
"Good enough" isn't.
Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.
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Just be glad we're not geting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers That's a good one, Ken! HoundGirl
Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog.
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Part of me lives with the wind in my face,
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The problem with Jefferson is that although a great theorist he was in practice one of our worst Presidents.
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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson Very true!!
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor polite, nor popular -- but one must ask, "Is it right?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The problem with Jefferson is that although a great theorist he was in practice one of our worst Presidents. I've heard this before, and this was according to many of his contemporaries. Could you please elaborate a bit? Thanks. DAL357
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Because that's life. What the hell'd you expect?
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The problem with Jefferson is that although a great theorist he was in practice one of our worst Presidents.
I don't want to sound argumentative, but:
What did he do to get on the "worse Presidents list" ahead of, Wilson for Proibition, Harding for corruption, FDR for Social Security, Truman for Korea, JFK for Viet Nam, Johnson for the Great Society-War on Poverty, Carter for mile long gas lines, Clinton for failure in everything but scoring on broads, ad nauseam?
Do tell us what made him worse.
Wake up, smell the politician, and re-elect nobody.
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