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Originally posted by MFAFF
Taken in its contemporary context the quote takes on a very differnet meaning than that implied by Mule in his abstraction....
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There was no abstraction...The quote speaks for itself.
You abstracted a different direction entirely and Jefferson spoke to that direction...
"The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own
industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers
not subject to their control at short periods." --Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1816.