More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
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.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
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.
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
