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Nice post Gary.
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From: goldcountrycalif@aol.com
Sent: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:24 pm
Subject: happy 4th of july
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Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of
the United States, was this nation's greatest champion of representative
democracy and the rights of man. He was our most eloquent spokesman on the
founding principles of American self-government. As he himself said, "I know
my own principles to be pure and therefore am not ashamed of them. On the
contrary, I wish them known and therefore willingly express them to
everyone. They are the same I have acted on from the year 1775 to this day,
and are the same, I am sure, with those of the great body of the American
people." (letter to Samuel Smith, 1798)
"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, and
that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" Thomas
Jefferson, July 4th, 1776
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to
remain silent. " Thomas Jefferson
"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects
perform the office of a Censor - over each other. " Thomas Jefferson
"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. "
Thomas Jefferson
"I do not find, in orthodox Christianity, one redeeming feature." Thomas
Jefferson
"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world,
and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming
feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. " Thomas
Jefferson
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of
tyranny over the mind of man. " Thomas Jefferson
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we
use our power the greater it will be." Thomas Jefferson
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied
corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by
strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. " Thomas Jefferson
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in
philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." Thomas Jefferson
" never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit
a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others." Thomas Jefferson
"Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to
right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. "
Thomas Jefferson
"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no
one ever will." Thomas Jefferson
"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." Thomas Jefferson
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we
may be permitted to pursue it. " Thomas Jefferson
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be
one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded
fear. " Thomas Jefferson
"The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object
only the tracts which favor that theory." Thomas Jefferson
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and
multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. " Thomas Jefferson
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the
government fears the people, there is liberty. " Thomas Jefferson
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they
try to take it." Thomas Jefferson
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from
time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" Thomas
Jefferson
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