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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: one_less who wrote (9499)2/3/2017 9:29:32 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) of 354183
 
Thomas Jefferson had slaves!

What the fuck did he know compared to today's knowledge?

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Thomas Jefferson ranked Locke, as the most important thinkers on liberty. Locke helped inspire Thomas Paine's radical ideas. Locke and most

"had Locke been alive today he would have thought that we live in total anarchy. With “liberty” he meant sticking to the rules that governed social class mobility and with “happiness” he meant gathering property and riches without being bothered by government."

"Thomas Jefferson – penning the United States Deceleration of Independence – changed Locke’s original call for “life, liberty, and property” to:

“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Locke died in 1704 – he never visited the United States."

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