prophecy from washington
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Aaaah crap....make that 129. |
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
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.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Information is the currency of democracy.
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. |
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143. "Brainy Quote.com?"
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He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, is asleep ... wake him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not, is ignorant ... shun him. He who knows and knows not that he knows, is a fool ... teach him. which one are you!
