Friday, March 02, 2012

Quotable Friday

"Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on.... The small landowners are the most precious part of a state."
--Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States

Such wisdom. And so unlike anything you'll hear from anyone in the same position today.

1 comment:

magnoliasntea said...

I mean 'at! Wouldn't he be proud of us. *rolls eyes*