[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: favorite quote
- From: NHANSBURG@xxxxxxxxxx
- To: kmc@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:26:37 -0500
I can still go to John Fitzgerald Kennedy when you talk about founding fathers.
this was said to group of guests at the whitehouse during a State dinner
"This is the greatest collection of creative thinking minds ever assembled here
with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone" JFK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen C." <kmc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, February 19, 2005 2:55 pm
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: favorite quote
> NHANSBURG@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> >
> >3.What is your favorite Political Quote
>
> Being "hardwired for freedom," my favorite quotations of all time seem
> to come from the Founding Fathers, especially Thomas Jefferson and
> Benjamin Franklin. Here's a small sampling, for your enjoyment:
>
> =20
> "We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created
> equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable
> rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness..."
> --Thomas Jefferson, "Th
e Declaration of Independence" (June 1776)
>
> "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of
> civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
> --Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 1816.
>
> ~~~
>
> "Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and
> no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech."
> --Benjamin Franklin, (Letter from ***=93Silence Dogood,=94 #8,
> printedin The New-England Courant, Boston, Massachusetts, July 9,
> 1722.)
> *** Yes! THAT Silence Dogood... just like in the recent hit movie!
>
>
> "Fish and visitors smell in three days."
> --Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> --Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759)
>
>
> Oh yeah... And the one in my sig!
>
> =3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D
> Karen C.
> kmc@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
> Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
> ..... Benjamin Franklin
>
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