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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
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.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
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.
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
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.
