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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
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.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
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.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
