2005-06-28 09:59![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
digitaldiscipline
digitaldisciplineIn a letter to Edward Carrington, Thomas Jefferson wrote that, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." He noted that "one of the most profound preferences in human nature is for satisfying one's needs and desires with the least possible exertion; for appropriating wealth produced by the labor of others, rather than producing it by one's own labor . . . the stronger and more centralized the government, the safer would be the guarantee of such monopolies; in other words, the stronger the government, the weaker the producer' the less consideration need be given him and the more might be taken away from him."
At the beginning of his Administration, Jefferson wrote a friend that, "The path we have to pursue is so quiet that we have nothing scarcely to propose to our Legislature. A noiseless course not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness."
-------
Suffice it to say, I think![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
smaugchow's right - TJ would be on the CIA's hit list. If he were alive today, it probably wouldn't be for long.
At the beginning of his Administration, Jefferson wrote a friend that, "The path we have to pursue is so quiet that we have nothing scarcely to propose to our Legislature. A noiseless course not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness."
-------
Suffice it to say, I think
smaugchow's right - TJ would be on the CIA's hit list. If he were alive today, it probably wouldn't be for long.
