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To: DaveyB
Ben Franklin once quipped "Either you will be governed by God or by-god you will be governed."

No he didn't.

"When injustice becomes the law; rebellion becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson didn't say that either.

61 posted on 09/29/2014 10:42:50 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker
Thomas Jefferson didn't say that either.

He said it in different words.

"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."

104 posted on 09/29/2014 12:04:10 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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