Jefferson read Ayn Rand before she was even born.
Posted by TylerNewsome 10 years, 11 months ago to Government
I was studying some Thomas Jefferson writings and came across this:
"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
He must have gotten these words from John Galt himself, right? I see so many evidences of what I would almost call warnings from our historic peoples. Are there any famous names that you can easily identify from history(colonial period) who were truly against individualism and/or promoted big government.
"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
He must have gotten these words from John Galt himself, right? I see so many evidences of what I would almost call warnings from our historic peoples. Are there any famous names that you can easily identify from history(colonial period) who were truly against individualism and/or promoted big government.
James Madison
"Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people."
Francis Bacon: (on reason and primacy of existence)
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
Here is Patrick Henry speaking, "Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all?"
"An admirer of British political systems, Hamilton was a nationalist who emphasized strong central government and successfully argued that the implied powers of the Constitution could be used to fund the national debt, assume state debts, and create the government-owned Bank of the United States."
*Quoted from Wikipedia*