Letter to Samuel Kercheval by Thomas Jefferson

Letter to Samuel Kercheval by Thomas Jefferson: "I have thrown out these as loose heads of amendment, for consideration and correction; and their object is to secure self�government by the republicanism of our constitution, as well as by the spirit of the people; and to nourish and perpetuate that spirit. I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty�four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow�sufferers."




THIS IS WHAT WE ARE ABOUT ... NOT SOCIALISM FASCISM or any other ISM .. A Republic ... Maybe someone needs to take Obama to school in 2012 ~~ The Munz



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