How Prophetic is This?

[hausdok]

'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.'

Thomas Jefferson 1802

[kurt]

Don't dose me with reality right now; I could get depressed.[:-paperba

[gtblum]

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"

-- Thomas Jefferson,

My favorite

[Jim Morrison]

Then there's this, which many may deride, and no one may ever quote, but:

There's good times and hard times, but there is no safety outside the grave. Laugh when you can, cry when you have to, and keep your family close.

That's reality for 95% of the people on this globe.