Obama, Meet Thomas Jefferson

GREAT ARTICLE I wrote a piece one time which was titled "Welcome Mr. Jefferson" which showed by explicit examples that were Jefferson alive today he would be a Republican, at least he espoused principles far more consistent with the Republican Party then the sad shabby pretend egalitarian bunch of liberal whackos that go by the name of the Democratic party today. This piece makes much the same kind of point.
Some quotes from Mr. Jefferson:
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

You can't be ignorant and free. The ignorant are easily and quickly enslaved. Enter the government indoctrination centers called public schools.

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
That's why we're a representative republic. If you make us a true democracy we will be enslaved in do time. This is why Plato and Aristotle both thought democracy such a poor form of government and they lived in one of the first ones.

The 10th amendment was supposed to keep us from being dominated by the Federal government:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.”
Unfortunately the government is neither wise nor frugal nor does it think that we have the right to the fruits of our labor. The joke about the simplified income tax form is apropos of what the government believes: How much did you make? Send it in!

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
Jefferson was not afraid of an excess of liberty but of liberty denied. He would be appalled today.

“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.”
This is the quintessential role the nanny state assumes. We are to trade our treasure and our liberty for government supplied security. It is a recipe for slavery and bondage.

I'll stop here. Go to the link and see a lot more from Mr. Jefferson. Here's the LINK again.