These quotes of Thomas Jefferson demonstrate that he obviously was a man ahead of his time.

1. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

2. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

3. It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

4. 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.

5. My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

6. No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

7. 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.

8. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

9. To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

10. Thomas Jefferson said in 1802 ( 208 YEARS AGO ), “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

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#9 seems particularly fitting, doesn't it??

Of course, #2 is the basic premise of the current version of the Democratic Party, so it's equally fitting.

I'm a fan of TJ myself, but even he became somewhat of a hypocrite in some of these and other regards when he became president.

Yea thats pretty good comeing from a slave owner . the part about people who work for it and those the just take it .I wonder which one he was . the welfare hog maybe ? I wonder did he ever use his own hand s for work ? Being a parasite in life he would fit in todays cos. very well . A few liveing high on the backs of the many . I use to like some of his views before I read about his lack of morals with his wife when he'd sneak out to the slave quarters like a snake and force the slaves to breed him . and only after his death did we find out that he also had black kids whom he never admitted as his .
I guess only to be fair to him maybe his mother before him had been that way with a dog or something .