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TJ on Government 3

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Founders, Government, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson

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. Courtesy of BrainyQuote

TJ on Government 2

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Founders, Government, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of...

TJ on Government

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Founders, Government, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Courtesy of BrainyQuote

TJ on Tyranny

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Founders, Government, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. Courtesy of BrainyQuote

TJ on Wasted Labors

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Equality, Founders, Government, Quotes, 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. Courtesy of BrainyQuote

Abraham Lincoln on “Destroying Ourselves”

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 2, 2013 | Education, Founders, government, Government, Politics, President, Quotes

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. -Abraham Lincoln
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