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To: Reagan Man
"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
31 posted on 05/18/2002 9:03:56 PM PDT by Roscoe
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To: Roscoe
Uh...I hate to break it to you Roscoe, but I think Jefferson is referring to people like you.

People who can't abide liberty for others.

46 posted on 05/18/2002 9:35:00 PM PDT by headsonpikes
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To: Roscoe
I'll call your Jefferson...

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." — THOMAS JEFFERSON

and raise you another Jefferson...

"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." --Thomas Jefferson


138 posted on 05/18/2002 10:51:47 PM PDT by Zon
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