More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
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 press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
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.
