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Politics as economic prologue ~The Unmaking of Political Monopoly Bankrupting the USA
Jefferson wrote on Central Banks:
If the American people ever allow private banks
to control the issue of their money,
first by inflation and then by deflation,
the banks and corporations that will
grow up around them (around the banks),
will deprive the people of their property
until their children will wake up homeless
on the continent their fathers conquered.
Jefferson wrote on Political Parties:
If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
Yesterday’s voters may have wanted neither a return to the Republicans that sold them and their country down the river with eight years of war, unbalanced budgets and compounded debts from expanded government guns and butter, or the Democrat Executive, Judicial and Legislative monopoly that continued the same old failed programs.
Yesterday’s voters may have wanted a real revolution.
Yes, Jefferson had wisdom on that too:
Every generation needs a new revolution.
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
The constitutions of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property and freedom of the press.
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
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.
I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
Most bad government has grown out of too much government.
