[Ravensfort] names and a great quote

[Dan Smith Jr]

I've never heard of Adrian Rogers.  Here are a few quotes from some guys we've ALL heard of :

George Washington:

"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. 

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse."

John Adams:

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

Thomas Jefferson: 

" I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. "

Here is what Jefferson would have thought of Adrian Rogers:

"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."

And the last one, the most important in my opinion, again by Jefferson:

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

Alaric


P.S.-  Cherry-picking quotations can be as fun as it is misleading.  As much as I love political discussions, I'm not sure this is the place.









From: CAC 
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:41 AM
To: Raven's Fort Barony of 
Subject: [Ravensfort] names and a great quote


      I am excited to see the participation in naming our new site. So far we have around 10 suggestions. I will post all of them next week online. And then we will vote at Populace, Thursday, March 5.
         I have the best quote which pretty much sums up what our government is doing right now and boy does it make sense. Off topic I know but wow what a quote to make one think!

       "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." 


      ~~~ The late Dr. Adrian Rogers , 1931 to 2005, Former Pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis , TN ~~~

        YIS, Giovanna


     




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