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To: neverdem

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson


5 posted on 08/24/2007 1:41:41 PM PDT by tumblindice (We have guns in the event government tells us we cannot have guns.)
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To: tumblindice
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson
Bears repeating.
18 posted on 08/24/2007 2:06:48 PM PDT by wjcsux
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To: tumblindice

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

Not.

That’s close to a quote form Gerald Ford however:

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. “


123 posted on 08/25/2007 2:01:16 PM PDT by Kozak
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