Jefferson Quotations the right should read

Jefferson Quotations the right should read. :

Jefferson Quotations the right should read. The right and the Tea Party have stolen the founding fathers. Now it’s time we steal them back.

On corporations:

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

On Banks:

On Banks "The end of democracy and the defeat of the American revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of the lending institutions and moneyed incorporations." Thomas Jefferson speaking on the first attempt to establish a central bank in America.

Taxation with representation:

Taxation with representation "Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared bythe individual .“ --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1784.

Taxation with representation:

Taxation with representation "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 geometrical progression as they rise.“ --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1785.

Tariffs and Taxation with representation:

Tariffs and Taxation with representation "The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied... Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its urplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone , without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings ." -- Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811 .

Education:

Education "A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest." --Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 1818.

The social safety net:

The social safety net "The poor who have neither property, friends, nor strength to labor , are boarded in the houses of good farmers, to whom a stipulated sum is annually paid.  To those who are able to help themselves a little, or have friends from whom they derive some succor , inadequate however to their full maintenance, supplementary aids are given which enable them to live comfortably in their own houses, or in the houses of their friends. --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.

Final Thought:

Final Thought "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be .“ - Thomas Jefferson

Thanks:

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