Apt words from Thomas "Liberal" Jefferson

[lateo]

"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over,their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.

"It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.

"If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake."

-- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter of 1798, after the passage of the Sedition
Act.

[chimpymustgo]

1. I first read that when Elizabeth Edwards posted it last week.

Man, does it ever describe what we are going through now.

[oddtext]

3. since she posted that

i've been patiently waiting for the reign of witches to end. i've imagined cheney in handcuffs among others in numerous permutations of Votergate '04.

anyone else?

[mcg]

2. Jefferson re "monied corporations"

"I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

from a letter to George Logan, Nov. 12th, 1816.

"Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by
the individual." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1784.

"Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is
to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the
higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they
rise." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1785.

http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff5.htm

[Zorra]

4. Jefferson was not up against electronic voting machines. Everything we

do, other than boycotting republicans and republiican corporations, is futile until we get rid of the Black Boxes.