Worth Repeating

Oct 26th, 2012
Note: I have changed the "Quote of the Day" to "Worth Repeating." Daily posting has become difficult do to my ongoing issues with my eyesight. Thank you. -- Grey

"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."

-- Thomas Jefferson

Quote Of The Day

Feb 20th, 2012

"The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Quote Of The Day

Jan 18th, 2012

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Newt Calls Himself "Historian"

Jan 5th, 2012

And then there's this from Buzz Feed:

"Newt Gingrich is already in New Hampshire and kicked off his day with a town hall meeting in Concord. Gingrich fielded a number of questions about drug policy, including one from a man who said that many in the Live Free or Die state don't like the federal government's involvement in stopping weed growing operations. "Would Thomas Jefferson or George Washington be arrested for growing marijuana?" the man asked.

Gingrich responded, "I think Jefferson and George Washington would strongly discourage you from growing marijuana, and their tactics to stop you would be more violent than they would be today."

Gingrich, a historian, did not mention that both Washington and Jefferson grew hemp on their plantations." EMPHASIS OURS

Quote Of The Day

Dec 19th, 2011

"I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Quote Of The Day

Nov 29th, 2011

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Quote Of The Day

Nov 28th, 2011

"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Quote Of The Day

Nov 25th, 2011

"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Quote Of The Day

Nov 9th, 2011

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
-- Thomas Jefferson 

Quote Of The Day 2

Nov 7th, 2011

‎"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." 
-- Thomas Jefferson

Quote Of The Day

Sept 7th, 2011

"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Quote Of The Day

Aug 29th, 2011

"In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. 

Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Quote Of The Day

August 4th, 2011

"Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometric progression as they rise."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Quote Of The Day

July 29th, 2011

"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object." 

-- Thomas Jefferson

Which reminds me... this is will of the people

Quote Of The Day

July 8th, 2011

"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor." 
-- Thomas Jefferson

Quote Of The Day - Independence Day Edition

July 4th, 2011

To all those who would say we should roll back progress to the time of our Founders, I would suggest that they need to read substantially more Thomas Jefferson. Happy Birthday, America. We are still creating our future.

"Half a loaf is better than no bread. If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can."
-- Thomas Jefferson

... And let's keep working on the rest.

Quote Of The Day

June 30th, 2011

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Quote Of The Day

June 10th, 2011

"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Quote Of The Day

May 13th, 2011
Too Late.

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Quote Of The Day

May 10th, 2011

"The dead should not rule the living" -- Thomas Jefferson