There’s nobody on the contemporary scene who is within field goal range of Thomas Jefferson’s wisdom, so why not study it? From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
I’ve made no secret of my admiration of Thomas Jefferson, and today I’d like to show you at least part of why. And so I’ll give you a collection of my favorite Jefferson passages. There was considerably more to the man than just his writings, but this will give you enough to appreciate. And please remember that he came up with these thoughts between 200 and 250 years ago.
State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules. (Letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787)
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. (Letter to Archibald Stuart, December 23, 1791)
There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. (Letter to Edward Dowse, April 19, 1803)
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. (Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1819)
“He who knows best knows how little he knows.” -Thomas Jefferson
Just as So-crates said in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure!
Sargent Schultz was a great philosopher as well. (s/)
Breaking from Kansas:
Dust In The Wind