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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
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.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
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.
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.
