Thomas Ferguson quotes

Thomas Ferguson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I believe that Judaism was an improvement on polytheism; Christianity was an improvement on Judaism (to some degree and in some departments only); that Protestantism is an improvement on Catholicism; that Mormonism is an improvement on Protestantism. So I give Joseph Smith credit as an innovator and as a smart fellow.”
-- Thomas Ferguson

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“I wonder what really goes on in the minds of Church leadership who know of the data concerning the Book of Abraham, the new data on the First Vision, etc.... It would tend to devastate the Church if a top leader were to announce the facts.”
-- Thomas Ferguson

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“Since Oliver Cowdery was born in 1806 and was in Poultney from 1809 to 1825, he was resident in Poultney from 3 years of age until he was 19 years of age - 16 years in all. And these years encompassed the publication of View of the Hebrews, in 1822 [1823] and 1825. His three little half sisters, born in Poultney, were all baptized in Ethan Smith's church. Thus, the family had a close tie with Ethan Smith.”
-- Thomas Ferguson

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“There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels,”
-- Thomas Ferguson

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“Smoking means always having to say you're sorry.”
-- Thomas Ferguson

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“There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it.”
-- Thomas Ferguson

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“Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people.”
-- Thomas Ferguson

Source : Thomas Ferguson (2011). “Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems”, p.362, University of Chicago Press

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