This should be printed on the front of every Senator’s office
To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
Thomas Jefferson
If she could understand the succession of words, Nancy Pelosi would probably react to it like a vampire reacts to sunlight.
If Pelosi et al parsed that the same way they parse the Second Amendment, it would come out looking something like “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
Like the read the Bible selectively, they’d also read Thomas Jefferson selectively. They already do in-fact; they read just enough Jefferson to push freedom from religion, but not enough to get into his libertarian aspects.