“Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state”.
~Thomas Jefferson
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education”.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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Billy Moore
Jan 14, 2019 @ 10:41:32
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education”.
Good stuff, but I know of no government that has applies this “remedy”. If one exists today, I need to move.
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