EdwardBaiamonte
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How bout Franklin and Jefferson,[as examples of founding progressive liberals] Pubtroll?
Franco always take title as the worlds most illiterate liberal!! Dear, here are Jefferson quotes:
Thomas Jefferson:
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
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.
My reading of history convinces me that bad government results from too much government.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Most bad government has grown out of too much government.
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.