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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
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.
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
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.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
