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Adsos Letter

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Fri Dec-12-08 03:03 AM
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William Jennings Bryan...

Edited on Fri Dec-12-08 03:05 AM by adsosletter

"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."

Bryan was speaking about hard money, so it isn't really appropriate...and yet, it is absolutely appropriate for our day.

EDIT: I always forget the quotation marks... :dunce:

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Fri Dec-12-08 03:22 AM
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1. Very cool..

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Adsos Letter

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Fri Dec-12-08 03:42 AM
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4. That's a dapper looking pair, those two...

and your dancing bear is cute! :hi:

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Fri Dec-12-08 03:25 AM
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2. His 1908 Dem convention speech could have been given this years.

It's eerie how the issues are all the same.

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Adsos Letter

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Fri Dec-12-08 03:32 AM
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3. Back to the begining of the Republic, my friend...

they worried that we would fall directly into the shit we have gone and fallen into...

"But is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? Is it government? Is this the kind of protection we receive in return for the rights we give up? Besides, the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion."

Thomas Jefferson
"Notes on the State of Virginia" 1781.

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