More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
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.
