The best one is at the bottom....and he said this in 1802....
Thomas Jefferson...
PRESIDENT KENNEDY ONCE SAID THAT A DINNER FOR NOBEL LAUREATES WAS THE GREATEST CONCENTRATION OF BRAIN POWER EVER GATHERED AT THE WHITE HOUSE, EXCEPT WHEN THOMAS JEFFERSON DINED ALONE.
One of the most brilliant men ever!
Obviously, he was a man ahead of his time.
HOW DID JEFFERSON KNOW?
Especially: Read the last quote from 1802.
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe .. The democracy will cease to exist when
you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those
who would not. 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. 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. My reading of history convinces me that
most bad government results from too much government. No free man shall ever be debarred the
use of arms. 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. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. To
compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas
which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. 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.'
Not to be confused with the much drier Frank Capra film from 1943.A "Broadway Brevity", released August 1, 1942. Vitaphone #1022-1023A.Transferred from 16mm.
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