{"id":8625,"date":"2008-06-26T06:43:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T10:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8625"},"modified":"2008-06-26T06:43:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T10:43:24","slug":"qotd-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8625","title":{"rendered":"QOTD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/fisa-update-by-dday-ian-welsh-at-fdl.html\">this<\/a>, Jefferson came to mind.  Some good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/authors\/t\/thomas_jefferson.html\">quotes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. <\/p>\n<p>Every generation needs a new revolution. <\/p>\n<p>Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. <\/p>\n<p>Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. <\/p>\n<p>For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. <\/p>\n<p>When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading this, Jefferson came to mind. Some good quotes: All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Every generation needs a new revolution. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. Experience hath shewn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}