Nobody Flashes: Happy 4th of July!

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

I hope everyone..has a great day today.

For my own celebration, I’m reading this before the day begins, eternal words written by Thomas Jefferson and more thoughts from Tocqueville.  The Declaration of Independence was one of the most sublime documents ever written by man. It STILLS belongs to “We the People” and we should not forget that this day. Also remember that Obama leaves out the word Creator whenever he recites these words…every single time.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.   Declaration of Independence

And another remainders from Alexis de Tocqueville (Thanks amfortas)

Trading welfare for power is the second oldest profession. Wherever the government seems to provide, it actually rules. This is the “mild” despotism feared by Alexis de Tocqueville, the brilliant 19th century political thinker whose writing inspired Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom. This seemingly benevolent form of dictatorship, he wrote in the second volume of Democracy in America, is a tyranny that would “degrade men without tormenting them,” “an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure [people's] gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks on the contrary to keep them in perpetual childhood.”

And so goes the world…..

Nobody’s Email: Jefferson’s Words of Wisdom

Nobody Gets Email

I always thought it was funny that Bill Clinton’s middle name was Jefferson, (and not so funny that Obama’s middle name was Hussein)  and I always wondered if his mother REALLY gave him that middle name or if he put it in for political purposes. I’m sure the real Jefferson would not have approved of Bill Clinton in any way…

So, ponder these quotes from the man himself, who sadly is not here to stand up and shout them to the Congress, whose approval rating this morning was 9%.

(Thanks to Tom Beebe)

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• “When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe .” — Thomas Jefferson
• “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”– Thomas Jefferson
• “It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.” – Thomas Jefferson
• “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” — Thomas Jefferson
• “My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.” — Thomas Jefferson
• “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” — Thomas Jefferson
• “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”– Thomas Jefferson
• “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” — Thomas Jefferson
• “To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”– Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property – until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

Nobody Says: Is it any wonder that our leaders don’t want to teach history and rewrite our founders as backward, racist, old white men? We should have these words engraved in the halls of Congress.