The best Democrat said the following:
“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
“The democracy will cease to exist, when you take away from those who are willing to work, and give to those who would not.”
“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.” (we owe over a hundred trillion)
“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.” (welfare and handouts)
“My reading of history, convinces me that most bad governments result from too much government.” (Take note D.C.)
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
“The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” (Government is deathly afraid of the 200 million guns in our hands).
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” (health reform, IRS, and a host of offenses)
“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.” (Read the papers and weep)
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” (public housing, food stamps, Social Security, ad nauseum)
“Conquest is not in our principles, It is inconsistent with our government.” (Why do we go overseas and do just that?)
“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse.”
“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.”
“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.” (sadly lacking)
“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.”
“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.”
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold, is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
“Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations, the most abhorrent is body without mind.”
“An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.”
Unfortunately, there are no Thomas Jeffersons in Washington D.C. today, of either party. Will we really get a genuine “Tea Party” which party will be on ballots? Republicrats are deathly afraid of this. Why don’t incumbents vote out all handouts and welfare at the federal level, and retire, knowing they did something patriotic? Their names would be emblazoned on a hundred statues and history books as true American heroes.
P.S. Now, all tax preparers will have to be licensed and tested. More gobbledygook. I wonder why the geniuses in Congress have not made the taxes simpler, but eliminated them all together? Especially since the 16th Amendment was never legally ratified, nor the 14th either, for that matter. Just think of the unemployed paper shufflers, accountants, and CPA’s who would have to learn to do something productive, rather than figure out thousands of pages of IRS rules and regulations, which have more pages and words than does the Bible. It’s the Congress and their aides which originates this complex nonsense, not the IRS, which tries to enforce the unconstitutional Amendment, which the Supremes insists has been satisfactorily ratified, even though Kentucky did not ratify, which was the one state needed for ratification to be legal. Protect yourself…physically, as well as economically. A gun has a range of hundreds of feet, whereas fists, knives, and bureaucrats need to get close to brutalize. That’s what they’re afraid of, if the truth be known.