John Adams's letter to Thomas Jefferson regarding the Jesuits

President John Adams wrote to his successor Thomas Jefferson, in 1816:

 

"I am not happy about the rebirth of the Jesuits",
"Swarms of them will present themselves under more disguises ever taken by even a chief of the Bohemians, as printers, writers, publishers, school teachers, etc. If ever an association of people deserved eternal damnation, on this earth and in hell, it is this Society of Loyola. Yet, with our system of religious liberty, we can but offer them a refuge..." 

President Thomas Jefferson answered his predecessor: "Like you, I object to the Jesuits' reestablishment which makes light give way to darkness".

NOTE: They both died on 4th of July, 1826, as America celebrated 50 years of independence.

Founding Fathers - The Threat of Tyranny

Batr Sartre

Published on Jun 20, 2014

Quotes of the Founding Fathers

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Quotes About Tyranny

Quotes tagged as "tyranny" (showing 1-30 of 126)



“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.”
― Thomas Jefferson




“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress





“If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
― James Madison




“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
― Thomas Jefferson



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Homeless

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US President

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Jefferson's View of Tyrannical Legislation

"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."  - Thomas Jefferson.