More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
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.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
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 tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
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.
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.
