Five favorites by TJ
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day."
"Never spend your money before you have it."
"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."
"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."
Do these Jeffersonian quotes bring to mind a certain housing crisis, current election particulars and a whole slew of our lawyer/leaders? The USA was built upon much of the wisdom of this individual free thinker, Thomas Jefferson. I wonder if Nancy Pelosi (current Speaker of the House of Representatives) ever heard of him?? You'll see more quotes by him later. ...PdX
Rodney Dangerfield
"I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette."
Ben Franklin
"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
Yogi Berra
"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."
Kurt Vonnegut
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your
high school class is running the country."
Dave Barry
"I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since
approximately the Spanish-American War."
Ernest Hemingway
"There is nothing to writing.
All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
Lee Trevino
"The older I get the better I used to be!"
Mark Twain
"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because
I've done it thousands of times."
