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Taking From The Federal Government The Power Of Borrowing

markross — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 03:58:23 +0000

“I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender.”

- Thomas Jefferson

If The American People Ever Allow Private Banks

markross — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:58:57 +0000

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currencies, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their prosperity until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

– Thomas Jefferson

On Every Question Of Construction

markross — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:51:49 +0000

“On every question of construction let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”

- Thomas Jefferson

Never Was So Much False Arithmetic Employed

markross — Sat, 21 May 2011 19:05:10 +0000

“Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is their interest to go to war. Were the money which it has cost to gain, at the close of a long war, a little town or a little territory, the right to cut wood here or to catch fish there, expended in improving what they already possess, in making roads, opening rivers, building ports, improving the arts and finding employment for their idle poor, it would render them much stronger, much wealthier and happier. This I hope will be our wisdom.”

- Thomas Jefferson

The States Are The Most Competent Administrations

markross — Fri, 20 May 2011 20:19:33 +0000

“The States are the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies.”

- Thomas Jefferson

I Know Of No Safe Repository Of The Ultimate Power

markross — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:56:03 +0000

“I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education.”

- Thomas Jefferson

Congress Has Not Unlimited Powers

markross — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:56:02 +0000

“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.”

- Thomas Jefferson

Single Acts Of Tyranny May Be Ascribed

markross — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:02:59 +0000

“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.”

- Thomas Jefferson

I Predict Future Happiness For Americans

markross — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:57:35 +0000

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

- Thomas Jefferson

A Wise And Frugal Government

markross — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:54 +0000

“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, 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 good government…”

- Thomas Jefferson (First Inaugural Address – 1801)