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• Sunday, October 5, 2008 08:18 AM

  You forgot a couple, RIChris

  Thomas Jefferson quotes:

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

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

  I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.

  In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

  By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are fetters against doing evil which no honest government should decline.

  And finally, one for the Palintologists:

  If a nation expects to be ignorant -- and free -- in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  —ondelette Read ondelette's other letters
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