Thomas Jefferson was known as a liberal of his time.  When trying to construe what the intent was of our founding fathers the liberals will often turn to him as sometimes he is their saving grace.  Well, let’s open up Pandora’s Box on them and see what he is really about!

"Aided by a little sophistry on the words 'general welfare', [they claim] a right to do not only the acts to effect that which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think or pretend will be for the general welfare." --- Thomas Jefferson 1825 to W. Giles.

Umm...could you be any more on target than this quote.  The liberals have done exactly this.  General Welfare for these people and those people and this person etc etc.  "I met this woman while campaigning...".  They do it to bribe votes out of the people and it is working.  Hopefully the American people wake up and Stalin isn't in charge from the years of idiocy oppressed upon us.  I suggest all who read this to check out this site: http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0403a.asp as it shows how Hitler came to power.  For the general welfare.

At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Monsieur A. Coray, Oct 31, 1823

This quote ties nicely to my previous post on judges using foreign laws.  They are not held accountable and quite possibly we aren't able to anyways.  Once they make it to office they have free reign.  They are an accomplice to the liberals trying to overturn our government for socialism. 

The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge Spencer Roane, Mar 9, 1821

Here we have different wording for the previous quote.  There are multiple times throughout our history where the judges were legislating from the bench.  That is not their job!  They are there to interpret what the constitution is supposed to mean and uphold its meaning.  They are not there to declare what they want the constitution to mean!

For example. If the system be established on basis of Income, and his just proportion on that scale has been already drawn from every one, to step into the field of Consumption, and tax special articles in that, as broadcloth or homespun, wine or whiskey, a coach or a wagon, is doubly taxing the same article. For that portion of Income with which these articles are purchased, having already paid its tax as Income, to pay another tax on the thing it purchased, is paying twice for the same thing; it is an aggrievance on the citizens who use these articles in exoneration of those who do not, contrary to the most sacred of the duties of a government, to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816

Ah...here we have (without his knowing do now) him directly speaking against having a sales tax and an income tax.  Why do we have such things anyways?  Isn't one tax enough to steal our money?  I tell ya, it’s a legalized mafia system we have.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821

This has happened all too often.  Just look at our current congress.  We have problems ailing this country, but they will do nothing except give themselves pay raises.

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823

The Tax Code is 9451 pages long.  Can you imagine if that was construed by the ordinary rules of common sense?  This goes for something like the 2nd Amendment as well.  What is the common sense meaning of it?  Obviously to give the citizens the right to guns!  Our government has gone so far astray here it’s amazing.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands].

Thomas Jefferson, Draft Constitution for the State of Virginia, June, 1776

Ahem...what was that?  No Freeman?  debarred?  use of arms?  Is he telling us what the 2nd Amendment means here?  This is a draft of the constitution in Virginia.  You think he meant the same thing in the federal Constitution? 

Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Wayles Eppes, June 24, 1813

This means without “reenactments” of the taxes they would go away.  Now I don't want them to go away but it would make congress think about their constituents every time they voted for the new taxes.  This goes again to his voicing against oppressive taxes, of the kind we presently boast.

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Spencer Roane, March 9, 1821

Well, pruning knife please come!  This more or less predicts our government will have to change its ways and eliminate many government jobs.  I can't wait for them to end this spending spree and get back to what government is meant to do.

The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Cabell, November 28, 1820

Aha!!!  Our education wastes an unbelievable amount of money!  If this system was handed over to the states we would have a much better education system that was also much more efficient and would cost less money.  What is so difficult to understand about this?

To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816

Bada bing bada boom!  Another 10 star quote from, according to liberals, the liberal of his age!  Basically to take from a wealthy person because they are smart with their money and give to another person (which is exactly what the liberals do) is against my freedoms according to TJ!  Free exercise of industry is what our country was founded on and what we need to get back to!

[A] wise and frugal government... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

Free to regulate their own pursuits of industry.  Is that what Obama wants to do with his energy plans?  If he did we would have cheaper oil costs because of drilling in ANWR, coastlines and the Dakotas!  By TJ's standards we do not have a good government anymore!  They take bread from the mouth of the laborer to feed another who did no labor!  Our pursuits are obstructed at every turn and we must take them back!

Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821

This is basically mocking communism.  If the government can order us how to do business we will soon want them to cover our every need.  Sound familiar to what is happening today?

Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.

Thomas Jefferson, 1784

hehe...9451 pages of tax code.  It’s amazing what people can do when they are trying to suck you dry at every turn of your life.  I feel like there are a group of people sitting a room thinking on how they can add another tax….oh wait there is!  Our congress! haha

[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore... never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge William Johnson, June 12, 1823

Oohlala.  Sounds like he is against national healthcare, national education, national welfare system, national *insert anything pretty much*.  It sounds to me as I go through these that liberals are against pretty much everything we were founded on.  Not surprising

[W]hen all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821

Here we have it.  Washington dominates our country and it should not.  "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." 10th Amendment.  This is in direct violation of the 10th amendment.  Right now our government is doing the same thing mentioned above with "general welfare", but they are doing it in multiple places to gain power everywhere.  We need to take back our country and it starts with you!

Hope you enjoyed reading those quotes.  Personally I keep these in a text file on my desktop now just in case some idiot lib is spouting something stupid again and needs directing.  Even the liberals will take the founding fathers as words of truth for our country.  Fight them with these and they have nothing to fight back with.