Some people love America and others are just haters. They want to tear down and destroy everything we have built. These are people with no sense of right or wrong. For them, it's all about destroying what's good. Then I came across this guy and he takes the cake. This flamer wouldn't stand a chance on today's talk radio. They'd set his sorry ass straight! Get a load of what Mr. Negativity has to say: A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
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 tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Oh, what did Thomas Jefferson know anyway?
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You missed one, Harry: "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." (I didn't look up the exact wording, though)
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