Post by Tate Feller.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Favorite Quotations
"We must be careful that we do not trade freedom for security. Whenever that is attempted, usually we lose both."
Ezra Taft Benson
(“Responsibilities of Citizenship” 8; also in TETB 599-600 )
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"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."
Alexander Hamilton
(Federalist No. 62, 1788)
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"But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years."
Thomas Jefferson
(September 6, 1789)
Ezra Taft Benson
(“Responsibilities of Citizenship” 8; also in TETB 599-600 )
______________________________________________
"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."
Alexander Hamilton
(Federalist No. 62, 1788)
______________________________________________
"But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years."
Thomas Jefferson
(September 6, 1789)
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