Comments on: An interesting quotation from 206 years ago http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/10/10/an-interesting-quotation-from-206-years-ago/ Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, "All politics is applesauce." Sun, 8 Nov 2009 05:08:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.4 By: snuss http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/10/10/an-interesting-quotation-from-206-years-ago/#comment-7708 snuss Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:13:05 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/10/10/an-interesting-quotation-from-206-years-ago/#comment-7708 Ben Franklin said: "There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and more frequently fall than that of defrauding the government." "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." Ben Franklin said:
“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and more frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

]]> By: DingDong http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/10/10/an-interesting-quotation-from-206-years-ago/#comment-7679 DingDong Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:19:34 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/10/10/an-interesting-quotation-from-206-years-ago/#comment-7679 Sorry wrong link: http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=308 Sorry wrong link:

http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=308

]]> By: DingDong http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/10/10/an-interesting-quotation-from-206-years-ago/#comment-7678 DingDong Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:18:49 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/10/10/an-interesting-quotation-from-206-years-ago/#comment-7678 Here is the real quote actually somewhat close. "I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/j/jefferson-banking.htm Here is the real quote actually somewhat close.

“I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/j/jefferson-banking.htm

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