Quotes for Today

Quotes from Thomas Jefferson.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

[W]hen all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another. He noted correctly, The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Jefferson was clear on his disdain for taxes,

To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

But the Left adheres to a very different group of economic philosophers.

Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev said of Roosevelt’s New Deal paradigm shift,

We can’t expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.

Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas (the grandfather, incidentally, of Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas), echoed that sentiment,

The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

Don't vote for democrats.

Democratic is a process
democrat is what they are

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