Forum Post: Jefferson and Lincoln BOTH saw it coming!
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 23, 2011, 4:40 p.m. EST by TIOUAISE
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"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, AND BID DEFIANCE TO THE LAWS OF OUR COUNTRY."
THOMAS JEFFERSON, 3rd American President and author of the "Declaration of Independence"
"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert TO FLEECE THE PEOPLE, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel."
ABRAHAM LINCOLN speech to Illinois legislature, Jan. 1837
I was treated to the real libertarian perspective on Lincoln the other day: Our first tyrant who ended the republic.
He also said:
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. Abraham Lincoln
Yes, and the OWS Patriots are fighting the good fight, to UPHOLD the Constitution and bring back to Wall Sreet and Washington THE RULE OF LAW.