I do not make a habit of passing along chain email content but some of them are so relevant to the time we live in that I cannot help myself. I received the following and many of you may have read them but just in case you haven't here are some of Thomas Jefferson quotes:
1. "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. "
2. "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."
3. "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."
4. "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
5. "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
6. "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."
7. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
8. "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which He disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
9. "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. 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 will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
THOMAS JEFFERSON QUOTES
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THOMAS JEFFERSON QUOTES
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Re: THOMAS JEFFERSON QUOTES
Tre Kule posted...................
""To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which He disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
The situation described by Thomas Jefferson has come to us in the 21st Century as the basis of our modern view of Democracy, e.g. the party voted in power has unlimited authority over the disposition of the earnings and wealth of the population. We have approved over the years that our governments have the right and duty to tax as they see fit, with only half of an eye on the next election.
Indeed, the OECD regard overtaxation as a virtue and a means of judging a nation`s fiscal health. A country whose politicians can show a surplus of taxes over expenditure is feted around the World as being the example that other countries should follow.
In some countries the politicians have been so sucessful in indoctrinating the public that time and again opinion polls show the populace positive to accepting higher taxes if public services were to be improved.
The current favoured system of government seems to lean towards coalitions, especially in Europe, where in Norway, for example, the socialist government has a finance minister from the far, far left whose party received about six per cent of the vote at the last election. It is of no great surprise that the population are taxed to the hilt-gst on everything, including food, tolls on their highways, tolls on bridges and tunnels, tolls entering cities, etc., etc. The pattern is repeated around Europe.
We have given politicians much too much power; they are only normal human beings who are expected by the public to perform superhuman tasks. They simply cannot handle all that is asked of them. All they can manage with any degree of confidence is to spend and that requires a bottomless pocket book-which we have given them.
I really don`t see any way that the system can change any time soon. as the lunatics are in charge of the asylum, as it were. What is required is a population which are willing to take on more of the responsiblity over their own lives and not to leave their destinies in the hands of only accidently competent meglomaniacs.
Perhaps it might help if the political system were to undergo a complete overhaul; make the position of Member of Parliament honorary, paid expenses only, short time in office, restricted number of terms in office, most government tasks and responsibilities undertaken at the local level, for example. I believe that the physically closer a politician is to his constituents, the more inhibited he will be in his actions.
Nothing will change in my lifetime, that`s for sure, and I am almost convinced that most people really do not want any meaningfull alteration in the system. Thomas Jefferson was obviously totally wrong- he meant to say "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which He disbelieves and abhors is the way to go."
""To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which He disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
The situation described by Thomas Jefferson has come to us in the 21st Century as the basis of our modern view of Democracy, e.g. the party voted in power has unlimited authority over the disposition of the earnings and wealth of the population. We have approved over the years that our governments have the right and duty to tax as they see fit, with only half of an eye on the next election.
Indeed, the OECD regard overtaxation as a virtue and a means of judging a nation`s fiscal health. A country whose politicians can show a surplus of taxes over expenditure is feted around the World as being the example that other countries should follow.
In some countries the politicians have been so sucessful in indoctrinating the public that time and again opinion polls show the populace positive to accepting higher taxes if public services were to be improved.
The current favoured system of government seems to lean towards coalitions, especially in Europe, where in Norway, for example, the socialist government has a finance minister from the far, far left whose party received about six per cent of the vote at the last election. It is of no great surprise that the population are taxed to the hilt-gst on everything, including food, tolls on their highways, tolls on bridges and tunnels, tolls entering cities, etc., etc. The pattern is repeated around Europe.
We have given politicians much too much power; they are only normal human beings who are expected by the public to perform superhuman tasks. They simply cannot handle all that is asked of them. All they can manage with any degree of confidence is to spend and that requires a bottomless pocket book-which we have given them.
I really don`t see any way that the system can change any time soon. as the lunatics are in charge of the asylum, as it were. What is required is a population which are willing to take on more of the responsiblity over their own lives and not to leave their destinies in the hands of only accidently competent meglomaniacs.
Perhaps it might help if the political system were to undergo a complete overhaul; make the position of Member of Parliament honorary, paid expenses only, short time in office, restricted number of terms in office, most government tasks and responsibilities undertaken at the local level, for example. I believe that the physically closer a politician is to his constituents, the more inhibited he will be in his actions.
Nothing will change in my lifetime, that`s for sure, and I am almost convinced that most people really do not want any meaningfull alteration in the system. Thomas Jefferson was obviously totally wrong- he meant to say "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which He disbelieves and abhors is the way to go."
Esse quam videre.
Re: THOMAS JEFFERSON QUOTES
Thanks for the reminders of Jefferson.
Another good site for quotes :
http://freedomkeys.com/quotes.htm
FREEDOM!!! -- Braveheart
Another good site for quotes :
http://freedomkeys.com/quotes.htm
FREEDOM!!! -- Braveheart
