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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
