More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
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.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
