This Thomas Jefferson quote is perfect for the place our country is now

[Quixote1818]

"Those seeking profits, were they given total freedom, would not be the ones to trust to keep government pure and our rights secure. Indeed, it has always been those seeking wealth who were the source of corruption in government. No other depositories of power have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge." Thomas Jefferson


This one is good too:


"I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. WE MUST MAKE OUR ELECTGION BETWEEN FREEDOM AND ECONOMY OR PROFUSION AND SERVITUDE , as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-fou­­r, ... and the sixteenth being insufficie­­nt to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanager­­s to account; but be glad to obtain subsistenc­­e by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers.­­"”

[FSogol]

1. K & R. n/t

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, excellent. History bears well the fact that those seeking wealth, particularly

at any cost, were corrupt, evil and out to destroy anyone in their way, often leaving a wake of destruction in their path.

Here in America with our failed capitalistic system due to lack of controls we highly reward and encourage sociopathic like behavior and they move into gov. and positions of power to more easily gain the spoils.

[Quixote1818]

5. And the more powerful they get the more dangerous and sociopathic they become.

I call it the Moses syndrome. They think God has shined his light on them and loves them more than others even though the Bible clearly says the wealthy are the last ones into heaven.

[RKP5637]

11. And, they are often fond of claiming they were ordained by God, and talks to them. The politicians

and the wealth seekers, the ones grasping for power and riches, often one and the same.

[lumpy]

3. Thanx for posting. Often no truer words are spoken by

Thomas Jefferson

[Peace Patriot]

4. Wow! Great quotes! Thanks! nt

[Angry Dragon]

6. I like this one

"Progressive taxation has a long history: As Jefferson said in a 1785 letter to James Madison, "Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.

[bahrbearian]

7. K&R

[jwirr]

8. This man was truly enlightened. I wonder if the Tbagger rethugs

consider him one of the founding fathers?

[Nye Bevan]

9. Truly enlightened? He owned hundreds of slaves and forced at least one of them to have sex with him.

Personally, I prefer John Adams.

[OisNOTaDEM]

10. Jefferson on Corporations

"I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our
moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our
government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of
our country." --Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1816.

[donheld]

12. I copied to facebook k & r