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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
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.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
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.
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.
