Thomas Jefferson Sends...

    Here are some very interesting quotations of Thomas
Jefferson who has seemingly foretold our future:
          
        When we get  piled upon one another in large cities, as in
Europe, we  shall become as corrupt as  Europe.
        Thomas Jefferson
       
        The democracy  will cease to exist when you take away from
those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
        Thomas Jefferson  
       
        It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as
it goes --- a principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of
the world.
        Thomas Jefferson  
       
        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  
       
        My reading of  history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much  government.
        Thomas Jefferson  
       
        No free man shall ever be debarred the use of  arms.
        Thomas Jefferson  
       
        The strongest reason for the  people to retain the right to
keep and bear arms is, as a last  resort, to protect themselves against
tyranny in government.
        Thomas Jefferson  
          
        The tree of  liberty must be  refreshed from time to time
with the blood of patriots and  tyrants.
        Thomas Jefferson  
          
        To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation
of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
        Thomas Jefferson  
          
        In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting
to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
          
        I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to
our liberties than standing armies.  If the American people ever allow
private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation,
then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the
banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up
homeless on the continent their fathers  conquered.

Thanks to that guy at work...