Saturday, 04 April 2009

• Some great quotes by Thomas Jefferson in no particular order:
  
  
  "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."
  
  "If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? "
  
  "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. "
  
  "No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."
  
  "Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. "
  
  "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
  
  "That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part."
  
  "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
  
  
  
  

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