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<blockquote data-quote="floridays" data-source="post: 4931620" data-attributes="member: 68849"><p>No one mentioned assassinations except you jackass.</p><p>Are you so shallow that you are not equipped to argue a point without going to the furthest extreme, one that no one, except you has contemplated?</p><p></p><p>For your reading pleasure</p><p></p><p>"Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep. It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that the 1st. condition is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population. The second state has a great deal of good in it. The mass of mankind under that enjoys a precious degree of liberty and happiness. It has it’s evils too: the principal of which is the turbulence to which it is subject. But weigh this against the oppressions of monarchy, and it becomes nothing. <a href="https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/i-prefer-dangerous-freedom-over-peaceful-slavery-quotation" target="_blank">Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem</a>. Even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy of government, and nourishes a general attention to the public affairs. <strong>I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.</strong><a href="https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/little-rebellionquotation#footnote1_g8ynojr" target="_blank">1</a> Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government." -<strong><span style="font-size: 26px"> <a href="https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/thomas-jefferson-brief-biography" target="_blank">Thomas Jefferson</a> to <a href="https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/james-madison" target="_blank">James Madison</a>, <a href="https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/paris" target="_blank">Paris</a>, January 30, 1787</span></strong><a href="https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/little-rebellionquotation#footnote2_o8z6d61" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">2</span></strong></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">In light of Jefferson's letter to Madison, Jan 6, 2021 was no rebellion, it was no insurrection.</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px">Consider it a wake up call.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="floridays, post: 4931620, member: 68849"] No one mentioned assassinations except you jackass. Are you so shallow that you are not equipped to argue a point without going to the furthest extreme, one that no one, except you has contemplated? For your reading pleasure "Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep. It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that the 1st. condition is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population. The second state has a great deal of good in it. The mass of mankind under that enjoys a precious degree of liberty and happiness. It has it’s evils too: the principal of which is the turbulence to which it is subject. But weigh this against the oppressions of monarchy, and it becomes nothing. [URL='https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/i-prefer-dangerous-freedom-over-peaceful-slavery-quotation']Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem[/URL]. Even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy of government, and nourishes a general attention to the public affairs. [B]I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.[/B][URL='https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/little-rebellionquotation#footnote1_g8ynojr']1[/URL][B] [/B]Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government." -[B][SIZE=7] [URL='https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/thomas-jefferson-brief-biography']Thomas Jefferson[/URL] to [URL='https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/james-madison']James Madison[/URL], [URL='https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/paris']Paris[/URL], January 30, 1787[/SIZE][/B][URL='https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/little-rebellionquotation#footnote2_o8z6d61'][B][SIZE=7]2[/SIZE][/B][/URL] [SIZE=4]In light of Jefferson's letter to Madison, Jan 6, 2021 was no rebellion, it was no insurrection. Consider it a wake up call.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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