6/18/2018 0 Comments Quote #26that in some countries the laboring poor were called freemen, in others they were called slaves; but that the difference as to the state was imaginary only. What matters it whether a landlord, employing ten laborers on his farm, gives them annually as much money as will buy them the necessaries of life, or gives them those necessaries at short hand? - John Adams, as recounted by Thomas Jefferson in his autobiography
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6/8/2018 0 Comments Quote #25I learned afterwards, that the substitute of hard labor in public, was tried (I believe it was in Pennsylvania) without success. Exhibited as a public spectacle, with shaved heads and mean clothing, working on the high roads, produced in the criminals such a prostration of character, such an abandonment of self-respect, as, instead of reforming, plunged them into the most desperate and hardened depravity of morals and character. - from the autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
6/8/2018 0 Comments Quote #24I went through the Pentegon 10 days after 9/11. . . . and an officer from the Joint Staff called me into his office and said, "I want you to know" he said, "sir, we're going to attack Iraq." and I said, "Why?" He said, "We don't know." I said, "Well, did they tie Saddam to 9/11?" He said, "No." He said, "But, I guess they don't know what to do about terrorism, but they can attack states and they want to look strong, and so, I guess they think if they take down a state it will intimidate the terrorists and, you know it's like that old saying" he said, "if the only tool you have is a hammer than every problem has to be a nail." - General Wesley Clark (retired), at the Commonwealth Club of California (October 3, 2007)
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