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Re: Thursday Chat 07.19.12

Subject: Re: Thursday Chat 07.19.12
by Ultraman on 2012/7/19 22:18:05

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95Vert wrote:
I looked up that TJ quote, Marcus, the one you posted above. Jefferson said something vaguely like it, but not as quoted in a variety of postings all over the internet.

I'm not saying it doesn't make sense, it does, but he did not put it that way.

Thanks Bill, enjoyed reading the obit for common sense. It makes sense!!

Your right I took that off his Montecello website but should have read further. He did in a long winded version say about the same thing....if you scroll down the page.

http://www.monticello.org/site/jeffer ... -cease-to-exist-quotation

Here are a few more of his quotes:

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of priciple, stand like a rock.

Never spend your money before you earned it.

We never repent of having eaten too little......lol

SMC