"Public opinion... [is] a censor before which the most exalted tremble for their future as well as present fame." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1816. ME 14:393
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:373, Papers 12:356
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere." --Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1787.
"I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. ME 6:65
"[No] degree of power in the hands of government [will] prevent insurrections." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. Papers 12:442.
There's much more but I'll stop quoting one of our greatest presidents, and a great democrat.
Kerry's quoting Jefferson is incorrect in letter yes ,but not in spirit. Your president can't even get his own quotes right LOL!!!!
…….good day to you sir.
"Often is the question asked, IS our children learning?" GW Bush
So now we can add false accreditation to the long laundry list of excesses and abuses perpetrated by the ersatz Senator from Massachusetts.
According to the Jefferson website "Monticello.org" the quotation as used by John Kerry (by the way, did you know he served in Vietnam and got 3 purple hearts?!) that "patriotism is the highest form of patriotism" is actually not a valid quotation from Thomas Jefferson. Mark was quite "on point" on that particular issue...
But why should that stop John Kerry? After all, it is proven that the testimony he gave to Congress in 1971 was fraudulent. It was based upon hearsay from people who never actually served in Vietnam. And the uniform he wore during his testimony - it carried medals that were bogus. His uniform was not even standard Naval Officer issue. And "his medals" that he threw over the wall in protest (dissent) weren't even his medals. It is alleged that he and his coherts bought them at a thrift store. The litany of fraud goes on as far as the eye can see... But why should that stop him from braying his "patriotic dissent" to anyone who would listen?
He's a fraud. He's a second-rate gigolo who married his way into power and influence. The Swiftboat Veterans for the Truth said all that needed to be said about him. I thank them from the bottom of my heart for their coming forward and telling their side of the story. I'm sure that the truth lies somewhere between their version and his version, but I'll put my bets on their side of the table any day!
Why - oh why - do the good people of Massachusetts keep letting this fraud and gigolo be their representative? Surely they have more brains and common sense than to keep this crusty, tired remnant of the sixties as their Senator. Haven't they looked at his record of attendance and voting record? Don't they see what a decrepit and obscene failure that he is?
John Kerry is nothing more than the leading mouthpiece of the Democratic Party: the Party of Subversion...
db, they're the culture of treason--they even defend leakers who actually do harm to national security.
Hey you parrot-lemming moonbat trolls, I'm going out of town from tomorrow until Sunday. Going down to WV for some golf, and to clear my head of some of the disgust I have for the left. So enjoy your keefer-free weekend, and behave, or I'll get "King George" to do some warrantless wiretapping on you. Bwahahaha!!!
keefer
I like this picture. Kind of sums it up eh?
Demorats mantra: "If we tell a lie often enough, soon it will become the truth!"
Wow, your citation of a false quote completely destroys my faith in the Democratic party.
"Public opinion... [is] a censor before which the most exalted tremble for their future as well as present fame." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1816. ME 14:393
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:373, Papers 12:356
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere." --Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1787.
"I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. ME 6:65
"[No] degree of power in the hands of government [will] prevent insurrections." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. Papers 12:442.
There's much more but I'll stop quoting one of our greatest presidents, and a great democrat.
Kerry's quoting Jefferson is incorrect in letter yes ,but not in spirit. Your president can't even get his own quotes right LOL!!!!
…….good day to you sir.
"Often is the question asked, IS our children learning?" GW Bush