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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
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.
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.
