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Slaughter
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 05, 2012 - 08:18 am: | 
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quote:Virtually EVERY founding father in virtually EVERY year of their adult life:
VOTE
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Blake
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 05, 2012 - 08:40 am: |
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Except for women. Big mistake that. |
Fb1
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2012 - 07:50 am: |
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quote:"This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take. Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion."
- Thomas Jefferson, 1825
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Slaughter
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2012 - 06:57 pm: |
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Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson had insisted that voting be restricted to ONLY those who "had a stake in society." The PROPERTY OWNERS.
James Madison argued that extending the right to vote to all could lead in the right to property and justice being "overruled by a majority without property". |
Fb1
| | Posted on Thursday, June 07, 2012 - 06:41 am: |
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Wise men, the Founders.
quote:"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions."
– James Madison, 1792
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Fb1
| | Posted on Friday, June 08, 2012 - 07:31 am: |
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quote:Alexander Hamilton, 1775:
"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism."
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Fb1
| | Posted on Saturday, June 09, 2012 - 04:36 am: |
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quote:"Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing [as] demagogues and ending [up as] tyrants."
– Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 1, 1787
Obsequious: Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
Demagogue: A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument |
Fb1
| | Posted on Monday, June 11, 2012 - 09:38 am: |
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quote:Patrick Henry, 1775:
"It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth - and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it."
Near Martinsville, Virginia USA, June 9, 2012, x three |
Fb1
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 07:01 am: |
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quote:Thomas Paine, 1791:
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute."
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Fb1
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 07:52 am: |
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quote:Fisher Ames, 1788:
"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe, to be liberty."
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Blake
| | Posted on Sunday, December 31, 2017 - 11:23 am: |
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Just a little example for contrast:
"We are the people that we've been waiting for." — Barack Hussein Obama |
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