TW: On the Fourth I thought it would be interesting to pull up some quotes from our distinguished forefathers who designed and built the greatest governmental structure ever created (or at least greatest compared to all others before or since).
We start with Mr. Jefferson:
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
"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."
"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. "
"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital."
"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes."
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
"He who knows best knows how little he knows."
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