The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.”– Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson: “The two enemies of the people are criminals and government…”
Must have seen obama coming down the pike.
The folks who started this country had a few things FIGURED OUT. Too bad we have lost track of the rules they set up for us.
Absolutely
I don’t know if he made this quote or not. I don’t know everything he, do you?
Jefferson also did not like organized religion…
AMEN!!!
amen
Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814.
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purposes.
— Thomas Jefferson, to Horatio G Spafford, March 17, 1814
I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio Gates Spafford, 1816