by Marilyn M.
Member since:
February 14, 2007

Thomas Jefferson Said...

July 24, 2012 11:39 AM UTC (Updated: August 07, 2012 02:16 PM UTC)
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"It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution."
--Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the Virginia Query 19, 1781

 

Our founders were brilliant men.  It's a shame that more of their wise words are not read by our children....or our "public servants".

 

 

Check out some of their quotations here: Founders' Quotes

Comments: 18

Jean R B. Jul 24, 2012, 12:40pm UTC
They do not teach it in public schools. Unless you teach your children they will not know.
Marilyn M. Jul 24, 2012, 7:34pm UTC
You're right.
Len Maxwell Jul 24, 2012, 2:12pm UTC
That's a neat site, thanks.
Marilyn M. Jul 24, 2012, 7:34pm UTC
You betcha.
John S. (arizona) Jul 24, 2012, 6:34pm UTC
Not much doubt about that...
Thanks for the link.
Marilyn M. Jul 24, 2012, 7:35pm UTC
You're welcome.
Duane B. Jul 24, 2012, 11:56pm UTC
The first indication that people are forming the canker is when they start justifying there action when they say the ends justify the means.

It seems more times that not that we hear this from the people who claim to have 'good intentions' are the most important.
Marilyn M. Jul 25, 2012, 11:15am UTC
That's true, Duane. I've asked a few folks how we can saddle our future generations with such debt, how we can justify taking away their rights and I'm told that we have to fix today and let tomorrow worry about itself. It's the height of selfishness to not have any worry about your kids and grandkids and beyond....as long as you "get yours" today.
Duane B. Jul 25, 2012, 3:25pm UTC
When you are trying to convince voter to support them they are more interested in appealing to the immediate wants of those voters and have no interest in the impact on the country and surely not interested in the future past their next election.
Marilyn M. Jul 25, 2012, 4:38pm UTC
Indeed. It's why presidents leave problems for the next one, rather than being unpopular. Even in 2nd terms, they want to remain popular so they can make money lecturing, selling books, or whatever.
Duane B. Jul 25, 2012, 8:49pm UTC
They also do it for the adulation that feeds their ego. I have been impressed how both Bush Presidents have stay so low profile, they are a throw back to Eisenhower and Truman.
Marilyn M. Jul 25, 2012, 11:02pm UTC
Yeah. I saw Laura Bush interviewed today. The news person asked about why she and President Bush weren't going to attend the Republican convention. She responded that it's no longer about them. Such class.
Duane B. Jul 25, 2012, 11:39pm UTC
Whether you agree with their politics or not, the class does show. In a time when we wonder if civility is lost they show us it isn't.
Marilyn M. Jul 26, 2012, 9:52am UTC
They do. Thank goodness.
I could spend days on that site!
Marilyn M. Jul 25, 2012, 11:16am UTC
Isn't it great!

I also love this one of Jefferson's:

Our tenet ever was…that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated, and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action; consequently, that the specification of powers is a limitation of the purposes for which they may raise money.
Big Mama Jul 25, 2012, 3:12am UTC
Great link Marilyn. Thanks for sharing it.
Marilyn M. Jul 25, 2012, 11:17am UTC
I'm glad I discovered it. (But don't ask me how I ended up there.)

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