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Old 02-12-2009, 11:13 AM
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Wink I think it was Jefferson who said:
"The natural progress (order?) of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground..." (paraphrase, sorry).

TJ may have been wrong on a lot of things (i.e., the "wisdom" of the common man, the future of capitalism/trade, the Froggie Revolution, the "Federalist" navy, etc.) but he was SPOT ON when it came to fearing and loathing the prospect of a central "federal" government. I think my (mis)quote is from that era----i.e. before Ratification.

Incidentally, TJ read Aristotle's philosophy IN THE GREEK!!! Yikes! That sort of dovetails with the 19th-century eighth-grade exam cited in the other thread above......
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