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TheSipper
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What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned time to time with their people preserved spirit of resistance. Let them take arms, what signify a few lives lost in a century or two. The tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants; it is its natural manure. -Thomas Jefferson

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ActionAdam
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Post by ActionAdam »

This reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw once.... It said something along the lines of

"A true patriot will defend to the death his country, and the ideas it was founded on, even against those who control it"

I wish it were true for more....
I.B. Nobody
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Post by I.B. Nobody »

Ive never read this quote before . Leave it to old Jefferson. He is right of course. The powers that be have tried and failed to remove the arms from the masses. Why ???? Well of course they know this quote much better than we. It is not only our privalage , but our duty to question authority as free citizens.Never will this country have a king. It was offered to Washington , he declined , and so began the peacefull transferance of power that make this nation great. Let us not forget that it is we the people who control the future of America , not the politicans , thank God!!! My greatest fear is and has always been the growing sense of apathy in our great nation. Through ignorance the tyrant has always prevailed.
complimentarymatters
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Post by complimentarymatters »

Power corrupts. When the government does not fear the people's power to rebel, then the government has too much power and it will abuse that power. Only when the government fears the people's rebellion will it do what it do what the people want.
woot
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tyranny

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we shall never be without tyrants but if we do not govern ourselves in liberty we invite tyranny to prevail. this is the legacy Mr. Jefferson left us with
kyle22
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Post by kyle22 »

Jefferson said a lot of great things that are true, but he didn't practice what he preached. He was a slave owner.
woot
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tainted youth overcome

Post by woot »

perhaps its remarkable that a child grew up having been taught all of his life that slavory was not only morally right but a god given responsability as was the attitude of the time and area, that he should not only question it but fight against it.
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