COMMON SENSE; Revisited
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Thomas Jefferson
July 14, 2009 at 06:20 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Declaration of Independence, second paragraph, http://ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm.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.
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Thomas Jefferson
July 14, 2009 at 06:06 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Declaration of Independence, first paragraph, (1776) http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htmWhen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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Thomas Paine
July 14, 2009 at 05:58 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford, The Great Tradition (Scott, Foresman and Company, 1919) p. 297.These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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Thomas Jefferson
July 08, 2009 at 05:01 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Thomas Jefferson, John P. Foley, The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia (Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London) p. 277, 278.Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Thomas Paine
July 08, 2009 at 04:59 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (R. Bell, Philadelphia, 1776) p. 48.Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals. It might be difficult, if not impossible, to form the Continent into one government half a century hence…The more men have to lose the less willing are they to venture. The rich are in general slaves to fear, and submit to courtly power with the trembling duplicity of a spaniel.
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Helen Keller
July 08, 2009 at 04:52 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
John Cook, Steve Deger, Leslie Ann Gibson, The Book of Positive Quotations (Fairview Press; 2nd edition, 2007) p. 427.I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I still can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
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Thomas Jefferson
July 08, 2009 at 04:51 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, edited by William Peden (Chapel Hill Univerity of North Caroline Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1954).The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless…From the conclusion of this war we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore…will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion.
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Sheriff Bill Masters
July 08, 2009 at 04:47 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Sheriff Bill Masters, Drug War Addiction (Accurate Press, 2001) Chapter summary #2.What kind of peace officer, what kind of society would allow a peace officer to use one minute of time, spend one dollar, or use any jail cell for a marijuana smoker, when vicious child murderers are on the loose?…Our police departments suffer corruption as a direct result of drug prohibition. The most obvious problem is that police officers can make big money dealing drugs, protecting drug dealers, or simply looking the other way. But drug prohibition also creates problems that aren’t so obvious…Zeke [Hernandez] was an 18-year-old high school student who stumbled upon a group of camouflaged and armed U.S. Marines assigned to Join Task Force Six drug interdiction team. The Marines shot and killed young Zeke, mistaking him for a drug runner…Violence in drug sales is caused by prohibition, not by the drugs themselves.
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Judge James P. Gray
July 08, 2009 at 04:42 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Jim Wood, Coast Magazine Interview - Judge James P. Gray, (June 2001) Vol. 10 No. 7.No one, absolutely no one is even remotely talking of increasing young people’s access to harmful drugs. But what we are doing simply isn’t working. The way things are now, young people tell me it’s easier for them to find marijuana or cocaine than it is alcohol..The War on Drugs isn’t winnable, but it’s fundable…It’s not only the Drug Enforcement Administration’s nearly $20 billion annual budget but government agencies of every kind receive extra funding for drug enforcement…things must change; it is impossible to have both a free society and a drug-free society. We will have drugs; either with drug lords or without them. The answer is to hold people accountable for their actions, as we do with alcohol. And let’s get rid of this enormous and expensive bureaucracy. If you really think about it, most drug related problems stem from drug prohibition; not drugs.
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George Santayana
July 08, 2009 at 04:34 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
George Santayana, Reason in Common Sense (2nd ed., Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1924) Chapter XII.Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
