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To: Oberon
My ears were burning.

"Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease."
-- Thomas Jefferson to William H. Crawford, 1816.

35 posted on 08/21/2007 12:20:40 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen

I fully endorse Jefferson’s idea as expressed in your quotation, and particularly with regard to those who would choose to experiment with a yet larger, more pervasive, and more powerful government than we now have.


36 posted on 08/21/2007 12:33:16 PM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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