Thomas Jefferson, though not a perfect man, was a brilliant man and one of the most important of the Founding Fathers. Why then do McCain/Palin/Bush/Cheney hate Thomas Jefferson?
Why do McCain/Palin/Bush/
Cheney hate Thomas Jefferson?
Perhaps due to the following:
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Jefferson said:
*Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
*Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
*Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
*Every generation needs a new revolution.
*Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
*I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
*I cannot live without books.
*I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
*I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
*I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
*I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
*If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
*If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
*In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
*In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
*Information is the currency of democracy.
*It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
*It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
*It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
*Never spend your money before you have earned it.
*Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
*The god who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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*Or, perhaps it is due to Jefferson's stance on Separation of Church and State:
The phrase separation of church and state is generally traced to a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to the Danbury Baptists, in which he referred to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as creating a "wall of separation" between church and state. The phrase was then quoted by the United States Supreme Court first in 1878, and then in a series of cases starting in 1947.
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*Or, perhaps it is due to Jefferson's own theology:
*First, that the Christianity of the churches was unreasonable, therefore unbelievable, but that stripped of priestly mystery, ritual, and dogma, reinterpreted in the light of historical evidence and human experience, and substituting the Newtonian cosmology for the discredited Biblical one, Christianity could be conformed to reason. Second, morality required no divine sanction or inspiration, no appeal beyond reason and nature, perhaps not even the hope of heaven or the fear of hell; and so the whole edifice of Christian revelation came tumbling to the ground.
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Fortunately, we have a choice this year. A choice to vote for redirecting the USA to the direction of peace & prosperity; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; government by the people and for the people ...
Please vote Obama/Biden!