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Re: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 7:27 pm
by m.and.m
They'd just say that there is no material evidence that I had arrows in my A** and deny my claim.

Re: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 7:37 pm
by m.and.m
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas Jefferson
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison

Re: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:55 pm
by Daveironbear
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was a wise man.
Max, It is crucial that we never relinquish the 2nd Amendment and let the Government take our weapons. It is better to die on your feet as a free man than to live on your knees as a slave. If ol' Andy taught me one thing it's never let the government get the drop on you.
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
Thomas Jefferson

Re: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:28 am
by m.and.m
No truer words were ever spoken. I think everyone on this board can identify with this one.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Thomas Jefferson

Max

Re: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

PostPosted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:19 am
by m.and.m
"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive".

Thomas Jefferson

Doesn't it sound alot like the 111th Congress?

Hmmmmmmm?

Max

Re: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:54 am
by Daveironbear
Max, if you have anymore Jefferson or Madison quotes please post them. Our sorry Government is broke and those running things are seriously in need of an attitude ajustment.

Re: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:28 am
by m.and.m
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Thomas Jefferson

Re: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:41 pm
by jim_m
It is incumbent upon each generation to pay their own way.
The nation who's government fears its people is a democracy,A nation who's people fear it's government is Tyranny.

Re: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:28 am
by Daveironbear
"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. ... It is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable -- and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!" --Patrick Henry
I think this appropriate given te state of our Republic.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

Re: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:05 am
by Daveironbear
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
:P

Re: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:15 am
by Daveironbear
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.
Thomas Jefferson
Hmmmmmm......Like I said Max, Thomas Jefferson was a very wise man.

Re: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

PostPosted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 9:24 am
by Daveironbear
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government. So let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so that the second will not become the legal version of the first." -
Thomas Jefferson

Max, how is that one.
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
James Madison

Madison was a wise man too.

Re: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

PostPosted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:01 pm
by m.and.m
I think this is one of my favorites.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Thomas Jefferson

I'll get some more and Madison too!

Re: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:58 am
by m.and.m
By way of special request, the following quote from James Madison is offered for your enjoyment.


All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

James Madison

Max

Re: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:30 pm
by Daveironbear
http://www.personalliberty.com/liberty/sockdolager-a-tale-of-davy-crockett-charity-and-congress/
Maybe Congress should have read this before ObummerKare was shoved through :evil: .