<![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes]]>Enough with the mistruths about our right to bear arms:

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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. -Thomas Jefferson

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one." - Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist in 1764. That was 230 years ago. -Thomas Jefferson

"The constitutions of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves;
that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property and freedom
of the press." Thomas Jefferson

"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." -Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.-Thomas Jefferson

I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.-Thomas Jefferson

Power is not alluring to pure minds.-Thomas Jefferson

Most bad government has grown out of too much government.-Thomas Jefferson

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?-Thomas Jefferson

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.-Thomas Jefferson

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.-Thomas Jefferson

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.-Thomas Jefferson

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.-Thomas Jefferson

I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.-Thomas Jefferson

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.-Thomas Jefferson

The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.-Thomas Jefferson

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/topic/29597/thomas-jefferson-and-our-2nd-amendment-and-other-important-quotesRSS for NodeThu, 01 Oct 2026 05:50:23 GMTMon, 16 Jun 2014 18:18:18 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 18:01:25 GMT]]>Exactly. He had major flaws and screwups in his presidency.

Set the stage, all these years later, for Obamao to be

about eh...3 times worse?.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416476https://brownsboard.com/post/416476Sun, 22 Jun 2014 18:01:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 11:31:46 GMT]]>FDR fucked a lot of things up by starting [dubiously] well meaning programs that have since gotten even more in efficient. And WW2 ended the depression.

WSS

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416447https://brownsboard.com/post/416447Sun, 22 Jun 2014 11:31:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 11:12:10 GMT]]>

@the-cysko-kid said:

If Obama is just as bad as the longest serving and consensus top five presidents of all time (often selected above founding fathers such as Washington and Jefferson, but always behind the g.o.a.t. Lincoln) then he's doing alright.

Come on Kid, how can ANY President be in the top 5 all time if he was a Democrat?

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416443https://brownsboard.com/post/416443Sun, 22 Jun 2014 11:12:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 11:00:06 GMT]]>

@calfoxwc said:

Do you guys all soaked in Egypt think

my post was incorrect? That fdr was a saint

for entitlement spending, screwing up the economy,

and the rest?

Little sarcastic replies just means you don't

have a clue to argue with the content of the post/thread.

I just posted a quote that was ACTUALLY said by the person I was quoting.

And, as usual, you went off the rails, because it was said by a Democrat

You must live an awful life, to be soooooooooooooo jaded.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416442https://brownsboard.com/post/416442Sun, 22 Jun 2014 11:00:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 04:46:27 GMT]]>Come on, Cysko, you are being stupid about it.

It's simply that FDR was reluctant to get involved, then ,

delayed too long with the bombing, and despite openly

LIEING that he wouldn't send our troops over there to fight

in a foreign war, to get elected,

he had no choice but to go ahead and do it.

All in all, he did some good things. But he really was an arrogant dipstick,

who thrived on the power he could get by hook or crook.

The point about the Holocaust, was his delay in getting involved, which

was a political decision as the article explained, because he valued his

personal agenda over everything and anything else. Until, he had to

man up and go with the truth about WWII.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416430https://brownsboard.com/post/416430Sun, 22 Jun 2014 04:46:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 04:01:15 GMT]]>

@the-cysko-kid said:

So FDR is responsible for the Holocaust? Typical liberal behavior if you ask me.

Part of their anti-semitic agenda!

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416420https://brownsboard.com/post/416420Sun, 22 Jun 2014 04:01:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 03:33:01 GMT]]>So FDR is responsible for the Holocaust? Typical liberal behavior if you ask me.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416419https://brownsboard.com/post/416419Sun, 22 Jun 2014 03:33:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 02:51:40 GMT]]>Posted Today, 10:20 PM

FDR was an entitlement wonk, a power hungry would-be-monarch,

and economic dipstick who did America a ton of economic damage.

He was as arrogant and dishonest and manipulative, moreso, than any other

president in our history.

Except Obamao is ranking just as bad, leaning on FDR's desperation for more and more\

power, using entitlements to get it.

http://the-thought-t...-president.html

Furthermore, FDR was set on embargoing goods and services to Japan, while Japan

was in an all out war setting to build their empire. He stupidly tried to take

the small, slow route to stopping Japan.

And the Japanese got po'd, and hit Pearl Harbor.

And WWII? The one good think FDR did, was to give our generals the authority to run the war.

At least he listened to them.

However......."Roosevelt said misleadingly that he would not send American boys to fight in foreign wars."

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416409https://brownsboard.com/post/416409Sun, 22 Jun 2014 02:51:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 02:51:04 GMT]]>I didn't say he was completely unpopular. He did good things.

He also did bad things. He lied. Tried to take over our gov via the supreme court,

but failed.

His refusal to act sooner with following up on the bombing, gave the nazis

the time to exterminate Jews tenfold.

He wasn't all that in some ways. But giving out free stuff and bigger gov does get

you popular votes. Until the roof falls in.

http://www.dsusd.k12.ca.us/users/scottsh/Roosevelt%20foreign%20policy.htm

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416408https://brownsboard.com/post/416408Sun, 22 Jun 2014 02:51:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 02:40:09 GMT]]>

@calfoxwc said:

Little sarcastic replies just means you don't

have a clue to argue with the content of the post/thread.

Oh wow... if only we held you to this standard... hahaha

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416406https://brownsboard.com/post/416406Sun, 22 Jun 2014 02:40:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 02:35:59 GMT]]>If Obama is just as bad as the longest serving and consensus top five presidents of all time (often selected above founding fathers such as Washington and Jefferson, but always behind the g.o.a.t. Lincoln) then he's doing alright.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416404https://brownsboard.com/post/416404Sun, 22 Jun 2014 02:35:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 02:43:01 GMT]]>FDR was an entitlement wonk, a power hungry would-be-monarch,

and economic dipstick who did America a ton of economic damage.

He was as arrogant and dishonest and manipulative, moreso, than any other

president in our history.

Except Obamao is ranking just as bad, leaning on FDR's desperation for more and more\

power, using entitlements to get it.

http://the-thought-that-counts.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-fdr-was-americas-worst-president.html

Furthermore, FDR was set on embargoing goods and services to Japan, while Japan

was in an all out war setting to build their empire. He stupidly tried to take

the small, slow route to stopping Japan.

And the Japanese got po'd, and hit Pearl Harbor.

And WWII? The one good think FDR did, was to give our generals the authority to run the war.

At least he listened to them.

However......."Roosevelt said misleadingly that he would not send American boys to fight in foreign wars."

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416400https://brownsboard.com/post/416400Sun, 22 Jun 2014 02:43:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 02:06:32 GMT]]>FDR is widely considered one of the five best American presidents of all time and also one of the best wartime leaders. The new deal is undoubtedly a sum of everything you hate about everything. I won't pretend to be an expert on the new deal but my guess is that world war 2 ended the depression more than anything any politician could have done.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416396https://brownsboard.com/post/416396Sun, 22 Jun 2014 02:06:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 01:38:46 GMT]]>Do you guys all soaked in Egypt think

my post was incorrect? That fdr was a saint

for entitlement spending, screwing up the economy,

and the rest?

Little sarcastic replies just means you don't

have a clue to argue with the content of the post/thread.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416392https://brownsboard.com/post/416392Sun, 22 Jun 2014 01:38:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sat, 21 Jun 2014 22:07:03 GMT]]>

@logicisforsquares said:

Not to mention he had a (D) next to his name and we know that is the root of all evil. If he had an ® next to his name, he would have made the same decisions but you would have justified all of his actions.

of course

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416386https://brownsboard.com/post/416386Sat, 21 Jun 2014 22:07:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:30:03 GMT]]>Not to mention he had a (D) next to his name and we know that is the root of all evil. If he had an ® next to his name, he would have made the same decisions but you would have justified all of his actions.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416382https://brownsboard.com/post/416382Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:30:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sat, 21 Jun 2014 20:21:49 GMT]]>FDR was an arrogant napoleonic complex dipstick He did a few good things accidently.

but did an awful lot of very bad, and very stupid.
FDR was convinced that falling prices were slowing economic recovery. So hedecided that the thing to do was to get prices up. Now, when supply is limited,rices rise.
To limit supply, FDR and his Secretary of Agriculture Henry
Wallace, ordered the destruction of "excess" livestock, food crops, cotton and pretty much anything else American farmers produced thereby succeeding in raising prices on food and clothing at a time when a great many people were
underfed and wearing rags. FDR and company thought that a small "brain trust" could determine what quantity of production would bring things back in "balance".
What arrogance and narcissism it must take to be capable of entertaining, let alone acting upon, such thoughts. Also note that the
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) did not help in recovery in any way and left up to 2 million sharecroppers and farm laborers unemployed and the rest of the nation a little bit poorer and hungrier. After the Supreme Court struck down the AAA and several other New Deal programs as unconstitutional, FDR attempted
to pack the Supreme Court in a move that would have allowed him, via age discrimination, to immediately appoint 6 new justices and expand the size of the Court to 15.
FDR's attempt to resize the Court failed, but he did manage to bring about a hell of a constitutional crisis. Among the ultimate consequences is a Court that rarely lets trivial things such as the interstate commerce clause stand in the way of the expansion of the federal government's scope and
authority. FDR also refused to integrate the military (Truman did it in '48), provoked his way into WWII and, despite poor performance, maintained strong opular support by scapegoating his predecessor. The unemployment rate for non-agricultural (urban) workers under FDR never dropped below 20% (the overall rate actually rose after Phase II) and there really is a good deal of evidence that the New Deal only served to prolong the Depression by 5-7 years.
The more time passes, the fewer nice things people have to say about FDR's policies.he
could have saved millions of Jews during the holocaust, by allowing more than 20000 children in (though not all were allowed in anyway) or just simply bombing the tracks to aushwitz. not to mention when the newspaper would say 1000000 more die in Germany, it would normally contain few sentences and it would be in the corner of the back of the newspaper.
He created Social Security which is crippling our country. He limited farm production to try and raise prices, though many were starving. He hooked Americans on welfare programs. He tried to stack the courts in his favor by adding 6 more justices. He was partially responsible for Japanese internment camps. He was one of the worst presidents this nation has ever had.
]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416380https://brownsboard.com/post/416380Sat, 21 Jun 2014 20:21:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Sat, 21 Jun 2014 18:01:53 GMT]]>" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416370https://brownsboard.com/post/416370Sat, 21 Jun 2014 18:01:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Fri, 20 Jun 2014 04:32:44 GMT]]>No, woody, I knew that.

but it was more appropriate to have been

bitched at your direction, birdbrain.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416258https://brownsboard.com/post/416258Fri, 20 Jun 2014 04:32:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Fri, 20 Jun 2014 04:24:17 GMT]]>]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416257https://brownsboard.com/post/416257Fri, 20 Jun 2014 04:24:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Fri, 20 Jun 2014 03:24:38 GMT]]>No... Cal.... we're making fun of you.

Thanks for playing along though, lol.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416252https://brownsboard.com/post/416252Fri, 20 Jun 2014 03:24:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Fri, 20 Jun 2014 01:43:59 GMT]]>Yeah, you stupid woodpecker !

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416242https://brownsboard.com/post/416242Fri, 20 Jun 2014 01:43:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Fri, 20 Jun 2014 01:11:30 GMT]]>You probably don't even hate faggots ya emotional liberal queer! If you thought about issues instead of just EMOTING you'd know that homos give you the creeps and we've gotta kill em all 'fore they git us.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/416239https://brownsboard.com/post/416239Fri, 20 Jun 2014 01:11:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes on Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:30:53 GMT]]>

@logicisforsquares said:

He is a liberal and can't help it. Obamao has mind control over him. Luckily, I bought the Glenn Beck brand of tin foil from theblaze.com's online store. It deflects those evil and uninformed liberal messages from entering my patriotic, God fearing skull.

Shut up liberal! I bet you are afraid of guns you liberal! You probably want them all banned you liberal marxist scum!

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