COMMON SENSE; Revisited
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Thomas Jefferson
July 07, 2009 at 06:17 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Karna Small Bodman, Checkmate (Macmillian, 2008) p. 279.A 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.
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Thomas Jefferson
July 07, 2009 at 06:09 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Thomas Jefferson to Georgetown Republicans (1809) ME 16:349.The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and we but obeyed them in pursuing undeviatingly the course they called for.
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Samuel Adams
July 07, 2009 at 06:06 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Jim Hightower, Susan DeMarco, Swim Against the Current (John Wiley and Sons, 2008) p. 193.It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.
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James Thomson
July 07, 2009 at 06:03 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (R. Bell, Philadelphia, 1776) Front Cover..Man knows no master save HEAVEN, Or those whom Choice and common Good ordain.
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Frederic Bastiat
July 07, 2009 at 04:56 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Frederic Bastiat, The Law (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, 1850) p. 2.Life, liberty and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforhand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
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Thomas Paine
July 07, 2009 at 04:50 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (R. Bell, Philadelphia, 1776) Introduction.Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.
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John Adams
July 07, 2009 at 04:34 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Reinhold Niebuhr, Andrew J. (INT) Bacevich, The Irony of American History (University of Chicago Press, 2008) p. 21.Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.
