re: #45 HappyWarrior

We’ve got one group of people in this country who want to live in 2013 and others who want to live in 1813.

Speaking of people from 1813 (well, this quote is actually from 1816):

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 society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

I wonder what Thomas Jefferson would think of the tea party clowns who quite clearly think that the 18th century was some sort of Utopia in the United States? Because Jefferson clearly didn’t see it that way, and quite perceptively understood how much better things would be for all people in 100, 200 years time.