The wisdom of Jefferson's quotes is in the simple, common sense ideas that they represent. Common sense that seems to have been lost in this day and age.

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson ,

I think out of all of the quotes, the quote above may be the most significant and telling of just what Obama and the Libs in Washington truly want to do with America. They want to do away with our Democracy. They don't want to actually do away with the processes of democracy, voting, congress and such, they want to influnce them in a way that they don't function properly. They want to create a nation of people dependent on the government for everything. Those people in turn would vote to keep the Libs in charge. They wouldn't want to end their Free Lunch!

People need to wake up and realize what's going on before its too late.

I appreciate Mr. Jefferson's service to our country as President but not so much for many other things.

Tom's 4-500 living current distant relatives, born of African Slaves on his ranch-farm-plantation, is living proof that his ideas of freedom, work, guns, and otherwise did not apply to anyone except the gentile!

There wasn't even an income tax in Tom's day for him to pay to support those who would not work! Export taxes and import taxes I think paid our way mostly. Also on everyone's liquor and wine except the tens of thousands of barrels that Tom made and sold off his farm.

Tom was a Deist--not a Christian, and did not have to worry about what the New Testament said about such treatment of others.