It’s Not Like We Were Not Warned
May 27, 2013 8:56:40 GMT -5
Post by Michael Downing on May 27, 2013 8:56:40 GMT -5
Many of the Founders as they got on in years felt that they had failed in their undertaking of establishing Liberty. Jefferson wrote his own epitaph and he does not mention being Governor of Virginia, Vice President or President. Instead wishing to be remembered for his writings and establishing the University of Virginia.
Here was buried
Thomas Jefferson
Author of the Declaration of American Independence
of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom
Father of the University of Virginia
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It’s Not Like We Were Not Warned
From Thomas Jefferson:
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield.
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 them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.
Here was buried
Thomas Jefferson
Author of the Declaration of American Independence
of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom
Father of the University of Virginia
ncrenegade.com/editorial/its-not-like-we-were-not-warned/
It’s Not Like We Were Not Warned
From Thomas Jefferson:
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield.
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 them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.