Monday, June 13, 2011

Thomas Jefferson was America's most famous anti-government revolutionary

(NaturalNews) "A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men 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."

One of the most influential of our nation's founding fathers was Thomas Jefferson, to whom the above quote is attributed and the man who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Perhaps more than any other American founding father, Jefferson was a bona fide proponent of liberty who was inherently suspicious of a powerful central government and who once wrote in a private letter he had "sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."...[Full Article]