More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
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.
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 federal government is our servant, not our master.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
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.
