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on fireTopic: From our Forefathers
"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823. (This is why Obama is trying to stamp out Free Speech)
"Ministers... cannot in any country be uninfluenced by the voice of the people." --Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1786."A court has no affections; but those of the people whom they govern influence their decisions, even in the most arbitrary governments." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1785.
"Public opinion... [is] a censor before which the most exalted tremble for their future as well as present fame." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1816. (Not anymore, we are supposed to tremble at Obama, but he is what the Bible calls a foolish and unrighteous king.)
"The opinions and dispositions of our people in general, which, in governments like ours, must be the foundation of measures, will always be interesting to me." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, 1786.
