tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post3159187951563954078..comments2023-12-31T03:18:37.403-06:00Comments on "E pur si muove!": Sorry, but Government is not "Us"Lester Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-28486282834782086962010-05-10T22:28:44.234-05:002010-05-10T22:28:44.234-05:00Government cannot exist nor would have any purpose...Government cannot exist nor would have any purpose without "us". Although we do not actively participate or contribute to the everyday decisions of government, we still comprise it and contribute to its every decisions indirectly. That does not mean that Americans are liable for what our government does, but we do allow it, in our apathy, to continue whatever it may be doing. We are still culpable in some degree. This assertion means that by solely living in a society, humans can be responsible for it.chidadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10996542258816966223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-42781012263755708832010-05-04T20:25:04.431-05:002010-05-04T20:25:04.431-05:00"I deny the power of the government to make p..."I deny the power of the government to make paper money or anything else as legal tender." -- Thomas Jefferson.<br /><br /><br />One more I love...Toddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18136354449960613823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-3733713186747689062010-05-04T20:21:13.136-05:002010-05-04T20:21:13.136-05:00"Ought not then the right of each successive ..."Ought not then the right of each successive generation to be guaranteed against the dissipations and corruptions of those preceding, by a fundamental provision in our Constitution? And if that has not been made, does it exist the less, there being between generation and generation as between nation and nation no other law than that of nature? And is it the less dishonest to do what is wrong because not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy, and that in instituting the system of finance to be hereafter pursued we shall adopt the only safe, the only lawful and honest one, of borrowing on such short terms of reimbursement of interest and principal as will fall within the accomplishment of our own lives." --Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1813. ME 13:360<br /><br />Cheers,<br />ToddToddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18136354449960613823noreply@blogger.com