Tuesday, December 16, 2008

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Saturday, December 13, 2008

This tells about him and the Enlightenment.

http://isc.temple.edu/pericles/Enlightenment.htm

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Quotes. Tell me which quote you like the best.

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."



"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."



"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."



"A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit."


"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."



"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."


"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression."


"Always take hold of things by the smooth handle."


"An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes."


"Be polite to all, but intimate with few."


"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes."


"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."


"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."


"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."


"Delay is preferable to error."


"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."

Vocabulary

Metaphysics,Eponym.

What do you think about Thomas Jefferson?