Jefferson Individual Freedom

Good for the Union

A quote I found on BS Report from Thomas Jefferson might be the most appropriate one for today’s congress and administration. The benefit of the many destroys the rights of the individual would be my summarization of former President Jefferson’s words. Opinions?

Are we destroying our rights under the guise of “humanitarian government?”

Quote Of The Day: Thomas Jefferson

December 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

“They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare…. [G]iving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please.”

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