Conservative worship of Thomas Jefferson has got to stop.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants from time to time.
-Thomas Jefferson-
He didn't say might be, should be, ought to be, could be...he said MUST be. I'm not advocating for anything.
My point is that the founding fathers knew the corrupt nature of men in power. Thomas Jefferson seems to be saying that blood will be shed once again to preserve liberty.
Reading the writings of our forefathers, it would seem these quotes were divinely inspired.
Am I see this incorrectly y'all?
I don't worship any man.
But Thomas Jefferson certainly said a whole lot of things I wholeheartedly agree with.
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."
They were unconstitutional, as they were outside the area of the enumerated jurisdiction of the federal government.
Why in the world would we ignore pertinent facts?
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They were passed to protect our new country from subversion by agents and fellow travelers of Jacobin France.
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
William Pitt
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Conservative worship of Thomas Jefferson has got to stop.
No. Not now. Not EVER!
"Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual."
--Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1819.