FROM THE SGT GRIT NEWSLETTER:
In light of the present financial crisis, it’s interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers ‘conquered.”
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That Jefferson guy was kinda smart, huh?
Yeah but we the people aren’t… We should never have let banks and government take so much power…
Also, we need to break up media giants. Let’s have all media independent. Why should one corporation own many major news papers and television outlets?
That goes for music stations as well. We’d be much better off with independent stations. More bands would have a chance and we would not be force fed absolute bullshit (as often)…
Be careful….”"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation
as a dangerous citizen these days
is to go about repeating the very phrases
which our founding fathers used
in the great struggle for independence.” – Charles A. Beard
Seems Sgt Grit is about a year behind C Dude:
findingthecenter.com/2008/01/quote-of-day.html