A government big enough to give you everything you need is a government that is strong enough to take everything you have.
Your thoughts?
2007-06-16 04:39:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
Thomas Jefferson
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas Jefferson
He knew about Halliburton, and Corporate power even then, it seems.
In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
Bush and Cheney would not like him.
and he left us with a stern warning.....
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
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
2007-06-16 04:54:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A government that is strong enough to take everything you have,is a government big enough to give you everything you need
2007-06-16 11:44:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
True. The more services the government provides the greater chance to take your liberty away. He also said "government at its best is tolerable, at its worst is evil". Jefferson, the true classical liberal.
2007-06-16 12:03:27 · answer #3 · answered by cynical 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He said the natural order of things is for government to get bigger and liberty to get smaller and specifically limited government powers. Jefferson was a genius... he foreshadowed the current big government state we find ourselves in. No big deal, it's "compassionate"... or is it?
2007-06-16 11:44:19 · answer #4 · answered by RP McMurphy 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Ironically, I've never felt big government as much as I do now, under the Bush Administration.
How is it that we're paying for that war, anyway?
And is paying for that war (which we and our children will eventually do more of) more important than paying for education and health care?
2007-06-16 11:44:04 · answer #5 · answered by skeeter j 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It was Barry Goldwater not Jefferson
2007-06-16 11:44:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Great man. I often wonder why we had so many of his stripe two centuries ago but have so few today.
That quote is Gerald Ford's though.
2007-06-16 11:46:05 · answer #7 · answered by gunplumber_462 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Sounds about right.
2007-06-16 13:09:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Can't expound on the truth.
2007-06-16 11:43:04 · answer #9 · answered by hedddon 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Tom was correct.
2007-06-16 11:59:14 · answer #10 · answered by lordkelvin 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋