Onedia In The Ozarks

I clipped these quotes some time ago thinking to use one or the other in a post.  I reread them periodically and today realized that these brilliant thinkers need nothing from me but an introduction.

THOMAS PAINE:

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

THOMAS JEFFERSON:

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized… Continue reading →